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Originally Posted by Alexander
But there is also the other side of the coin: e-book purists may argue that by keeping popular content exclusive to e-books it could help the e-book phenomenon to go faster from novelty to mainstream.
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Maybe, but definitely not with works from (relatively) unknown authors, as is the case here. Stephen King experimented with e-book publishing back in 2000 and that
didn't work out. I doubt that the outcome would've been different now, five years later.
At any rate, the publishing business isn't very profitable to begin with. Publishers are not going hold back popular content (say, Harry Potter) just to make e-books more appealing to the mainstream.