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Originally Posted by bhartman36
If I was a publisher who was wary of e-books, I'd much prefer to take my chances that my 300-page book wasn't going to be scanned page by page than I would to release an e-book and do all that work for the people trying to screw me and my author.
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Well, good luck. It's a gamble you have an increasingly large chance of losing. Not giving customers what they want is always a bad idea, of course.
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... the financial damage to me would be negligible, since said e-book would be deep underground, and the vast majority of readers would not even know where or how to get it.
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That doesn't make sense. Either you are afraid of illicit copies, or not. How can the source (publisher's ebook vs. scan) possibly matter?
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The cost of production is only one part of a book, and not the main part.
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No argument there. Many things are exactly the same (author's cut, wages, editing, advertising ...)