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Originally Posted by cadele
The lost sales must be staggering.
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They aren't.
While your frustration is understandable, the world simply does not stop spinning to suit your conveniences.
It takes time to make sure that the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed. A big publisher like Penguin can't just haul off and publish whatever they want whenever they want, without violating countless contracts and agreements with the authors.
Further, ebooks simply aren't a big percentage of the market in Australia. Once ebooks really pick up steam, these kinds of issues will largely get resolved.
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Originally Posted by cadele
And they wonder why their businesses are failing, why sales are being lost...
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The US doesn't have these kinds of availability issues much anymore -- even ebook availability is steadily improving. Yet the stores that primarily sell physical books are still going out of business.
No one is going out of business because of a lack of title availability. It's a confluence of factors, including but not limited to: online competition, a massive recession, the cost of credit, currency fluctuations, over-expansion, and bad management.
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Originally Posted by cadele
people out of sheer desperation turn to the pirates - who can sell it faster, cheaper, easier and with no DRM. What is wrong with this picture?!
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I dunno, your assumptions I guess? Or conflating your frustrations with the state of a multi-billion dollar industry?
People pirate for many reasons. "I don't wanna pay" is a pretty big one, I'd say. Extensive legitimate digital music catalogs have been around for years now, at low prices; they've been DRM-free for at least a year. It hasn't made a dent in piracy rates. Go figure....