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Originally Posted by NatCh
It actually astounds me every time I brush up against the infrastructure that already exists that could be used to support e-books, and makes me disgusted and frustrated that no one who can wants to put the pieces together.
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Me, too. Why it is that publishers don't utilize the profit potential for older material in e-book form constantly puzzles me. As older, possibly out-of-contract material, new contracts could be negotiated on it without interference with current contracts. Non-current material would be perfect material to experiment with DRM-free distribution systems. It seems like an easily-accessible, essentially expendable and purely profitable resource to me.
But as I've said in other threads, publishers have clearly decided to sit back and let someone else do the costly R&D on e-books, then adopt their model when it proves to be successful.