The bottom line really, is that publishers don't want it to change, but are going to have to, and they will learn producing hardbacks will become a niche market so they'll learn to cost it separately. Nobody here seems to have mentioned the huge capital investment in static stock and the huge cost of warehousing, without factoring actually delivering the book to the shops & distributor costs too. The ebook is Amazon's dream, not the publishers'.
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