The sad thing is that this is not a positive change--from all reports, Dorchester is circling the drain and they are doing this as a last-ditch survival effort. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it would be nicer, as a fan of ebooks, if they were embracing digital for more positive reasons. "We see this is the future and we're charging in to stake out our claim early!" I don't think we're quite in that place where publishers would be wise to do that, though. Maybe in a year or two or five.
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