Favorite Authors No eBooks

Yesterday we asked you to tell us which of your favorite authors don’t currently have eBook versions of their books. A few people wrote in, but, like a teacher in a quiet class, it seems like we need to ask again. We want to create a list of authors without eBooks so we can apply some big pressure to the book industry to bring us the eBooks we want. So, please respond in the comments with some of your favorite authors without eBooks.

In the meantime, here’s the list as it stands after day 1. One reader suggested John Fante, a fiction writer whose career was resurrected by the enthusiasm of barfly poet Charles Bukowski. He’s got a huge back catalog of books, and it turns out two of them are available as eBooks, but the rest are missing–and Fante’s catalog was sold to Ecco when Black Sparrow Press, the original publisher of Fante and Bukowski, closed its doors.

Another reader suggested a handful of romance and mystery titles. It’s odd, too, that there aren’t eBooks of these–genre fiction titles have been among the most successful eBooks given readers’ voracious appetite for more and more books.

The craziest omission from eBookdom submitted so far is J.K. Rowling. The Harry Potter books ain’t available as eBooks. Ugh.

Click after the break for the list as of this morning, and please write in with more authors.

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eBookNewser needs your help. We want to compile a long, expandable list of great authors who don’t have eBooks available. Let’s tell publishers, agents, and authors that we want their eBooks.

Who are your favorite writers–in any genre–whose works aren’t available in eBook form? Let us know in the comments below or by emailing using the anonymous tips box in the upper right corner. Then we’ll add your authors to our list, which we’ll post shortly. No need to include your name with your list–we won’t post it.

Looking forward to hearing from you.