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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
After all of this discussion, I find myself coming back to the "Castle" publishing mentality, the desire for publishers and successful authors to maintain the status quo as much as possible because they are already on the inside, and by extension they ignore the entreaties of those "peons" on the outside to keep them there. There seems to be no other good explanation for the industry's resistance to e-books.
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Yeah, a lot of people have postulated the same thing when it comes to the music industry and online distribution. It takes power out of the hands of the labels, and puts it much more firmly in the camps of the artists, meaning that an independent has as much chance of getting heard (theoretically) as Britney Spears. It's not so much a loss of money that spurred them against the online music movement, as a loss of control.
It could very well be the same thing with book publishers!