Okay, I need to clarify.
My curiosity (for that's all it was) was about e-book ONLY books (ie. not famous books re-released as e-books, or double releases as print and e) breaking into the high-paying, highly-noticed movie sector.
I also didn't mean to disparage Indie films. It didn't factor into what my curiosity was about, and that's all. I think some really great movies are released as Indie films for one reason or another. I also didn't mean to imply that you have to go the traditional movie route to be successful, or "good".
All that said, my curiosity was about e-book ONLY releases, and big budget, high distribution movies being made of them.
Again, I didn't mean to disparage anything that falls outside the realm of my parameters.
(And I think self-published e-books count too, and would be all the more impressive to be turned into a big budget movie.)
Basically I was curious as to whether a movie were made of an e-book-only release, and somewhat as to whether or not it was then turned into a print book.
This was my (evidently) clumsy way of trying to figure out what status e-publishing has in the wider world - whether print books will automatically be insinuated into any big success, or whether the world is really turning technological and it'd be perfectly acceptable to keep it as just an e-book, and still get huge sales.
I probably could've approached this question in a much easier, less clumsy way.
Eh, live and learn.
Thanks.
