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Originally Posted by LCF
There are days, when I just blindly hate the publishers in my country. People on MR complain about having restrictions on number of ebooks in libraries, DRM, high e-book prices, bad formatting, etc. Well, you should actually be a bit thankful, because YOU actually HAVE ebooks in your NATIVE LANGUAGE!!!
I don't. Not officially that is. It is almost a year since the publishers jumped against a site with free self made ebooks which "robbed them from millions of $ income" for the last month. Actually, the figures they gave were bigger than the turnover from all publishers for a year.
Still, no (big) publisher wants to sell ebooks, apparently, because they will be "pirated".
Well, I'm obviously dumb, because all that is absolutely 100% sure at the moment is, that they won't make a damn penny out of ebooks, because they don't sell them. On the other hand, a lot of ebooks are posted on the mentioned site for free. Which means, that if they would offer one of the books for 50c, and ONE person bought this book, they would be 50c ahead.
But, NO, we won't offer ebooks, they are evil!!!
There was an exploding emoticon somewhere....
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wow, that's really stupid of them. besides, they can't let pirates stop them from profiting from an emerging market. time stops for no one, and pirates have and will always be there. i'd like to think that there much more people out there who would buy author's backlists if they like even one of their works. and to be honest, if the publishers were friendlier towards their customers, that they would be able to win over more customers from the dark side. and the people who would pirate no matter what are just well...they're something else, that's for sure.