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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
Ok, but this is stupidity from the publishers side IMHO if they don't keep backups in multiple forms (because one never knows) of stuff they (still) have rights to squeeze money from. Thus basically the whining means: "We have more costs 'cause we were dumb." I can hardly feel mercy for that.
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Consider some of the stuff Amazon offers in paper versions. There are still books in print written in the days when the author wrote on a manual typewriter, and sent a box of pages to the publisher, who marked them up and sent the marked up copy to a typesetter who rekeyed it into something like a linotype machine to produce the typeset galleys from which the printers would make plates. What electronic backups? The backup is the hardcopy.
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No return-risk, shelf-space-fights for ebooks: yeah and I see that you see my point. I just tought that plainly because of that they should go wild from sheer happiness and do their best to introduce ebooks + the technology.
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There will be no sheer happiness unless they can see a way to do it and make money.
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Yeah agreed, unfortunately the very same people overlook the fact, that when you put your head in the sand you put your arse up in the air. And then the only thing you are useful for may be parking a bike between the cheeks.
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And some of them will get just that. As I said, I expect more consolidation in publishing.
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Dennis