Forum: Author Hangout

I was working on the copyright part of my cover page and came across the following:

…without the prior written permission of the publisher,…

I'm the publisher so they would have to contact me. But they don't know my email. As an ebook, I can create a "mailto:" hyperlink and make the word "publisher" clickable to bring up their email app with my email address in it. So "publisher" would be underlined and they could click on it to send me an email.

The email is not my personal email. It's my author email. Any comments on whether doing that is a good or bad idea?

The way I see it, your author account is for you to exchange email with your readers. I don't see a negative to that other than the number of messages may increase, which is not a bad thing for an author.

Websites have multiple purposes and seem less personal than an email address. It depends on the relationship you want with your reader.

Of course the above is based on your book's author name being the same as that of your email account or that used with your webpage. Otherwise, you have linked the 2 names, which would not be a good thing if you want to keep the names separate.

Any comments on whether doing that is a good or bad idea?

I foresee a lot of spam in your future. What I don't know is whether people will be able to see the contents of the hyperlink without buying the book.

AJ