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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The bigger issue is people waiting for cheaper ebooks. I don't see those appearing from the major publishers at the rates people would like to see, because I don't believe they can publish them that cheaply.
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Dennis, the inability of the big publishers to publish cheaply is a recurrent theme of yours.
It appears to me, however, that it would be more correct (assuming that you know what you are talking about, and I am willing to believe that you do) to say that they cannot do so if they do not change their way of doing business.
But this is not an unusual concept in business. Change or die is how the business world works if the industry is not protected (from competition) or propped up by the government.
Another recurrent theme of yours is that the corporate parents of the big publishers have unrealistic expectations of the profits these publishers can earn. Well, whose fault is that?
You have frequently said, "Be careful what you wish for..." Given a continued reluctance to change and unrealistic profit expectations, I don't see why the customer shouldn't wish for change. It's not like we owe them anything.