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Originally Posted by TadW
Simply put, publishers are greedy and they don't want to abandon their existing business model. Hence they keep the price of e-books artificially high to make them less attractive, so nobody will buy them, and consequently they will never pick up momentum.
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That just about says it all. The pubs do not want ebooks to pick up anymore momentum than they already have because the more they do the more the existing business model becomes obsolete. If not for nationwide distribution, what does an author need a publisher for? Editing? Cover art? There are plenty of credible freelancers out there that authors can hire and pay them much less than 92-96% of the price of a single book sold. Publishers know that and that's why they want to stop the progression.
Sandy