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Originally Posted by Catlady
Interesting, sure. But no matter how closely he's paid attention in the past ten years, it's different from actually being in the trenches day in and day out.
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True, if it were an *active* BPH exec saying that it would be big news: right on national TV.
"NY Publishing exec gets drawn and quartered in public!"
I'm sorry, but the way the trad publishers are circling the wagons in public these days *nobody* on their payroll is going to come out and say these things. Even (or especially) if they believe them to be true.
I mean; $9.99 as the *ceiling* for ebook pricing, not the floor? Open competition being good? Amazon establishing the viability of ebooks as a business? The New Publishers showing the way to the future? "Bestsellers" getting marginalized? And lets not get to comparing the BPHs themselves to the Euro crisis debtor nations!
That kind of heresy can only come from outsiders or ex-insiders.
Current insiders would be risking their livilihood saying such things today.
The mood out there is getting dark.
Try this one:
http://kriswrites.com/2012/06/20/the...s-in-the-sand/