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Originally Posted by silvania
As long as they're still in the ebook business a year from now, yes.
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I think that's the crux of the problem: All of this is too new for sellers, distributors and publishers to have come up with a workable, profitable sales model, and it's further skewed by publishers and/or authors reluctant to participate in the e-book market due to concerns about piracy and just plain lack of information. Everybody's still trying to figure out what works, and a lot of them will turn out to be dead wrong.
I'm pretty sure the beginnings of the print industry went through a lot of this inequality, thanks to new marketers trying to figure out what worked and what didn't. Eventually, workable e-book models will also be worked out, and the industry will settle into predictable patterns, and more homogenous sales models. It should happen sooner, once the publishing industry begins to ease up on its innate fear of change (or is forced to embrace it, whether they like it or not), and begin to honestly try to support and pursue the e-book market.