Thread: Kindle Books Outsell Hardcovers
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Old 09-01-2010, 04:42 PM   #152
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post

What happens if the ebook is the only edition? A lot of this discussion seems to assume the paper editions are somehow subsidizing the ebook. What happens when there is no paper edition to share the burden of the costs? A fair number of folks on MR dream of a day when the paper books go away, and only electronic editions are published.
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Dennis
I think we are going to see a short, squat, pyramid-printed hardcovers at the top, paperbacks from those hardcovers, paperbacks only, and, spread far and wide, eBooks that begin and end as eBooks.
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