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Originally Posted by clintbradford
I am placing my money with the company that publicly declared they desired to offer every book in print to us as eBooks.
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Google?
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They have the capability to accomplish that lofty goal. And they have excellent eReader devices that the rest of the industry envies.
That company, of course, is Amazon.com.
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Ah. No, they don't have the capacity to accomplish that goal, because some authors won't release their books as ebooks (Rowling), and some publishers are small enough to not care about an online presence at all, or specialize in book that don't transfer well to ebook formats. AFAIK Amazon still requires publishers to use DRM (why Baen books aren't available through Amazon). And some publishers have their own ebook stores & don't want to sell through Amazon. (SJ Games will continue to sell its gaming books through
e23; its grudge against Amazon goes way back.)
Amazon may have the resources to get everything published by the Big 6 into Kindle format (but I doubt it), but there's no way they're going to get "everything in print today," for any given "today." Not even if you limit "in print" to those publications with ISBNs.