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Originally Posted by toddos
The ebook industry does away with a lot of that. Not all of it, sure, but a lot. Copy editors and marketing will still be required. New jobs will be available for typesetting ebooks rather than typesetting for printing presses. But there's no printing press to run, no up-front cash layout required to generate inventory to sell, no warehouse required to store the books, no shipping costs to get the books out to book stores, no brick and mortar book stores to sell these books to the end user.
The publishing industry is still stuck in the paper mindset. They price ebooks like paperbooks event though they cost a fraction of the cost of a paper book to make. They then try to protect this by using DRM, and they have an old fashioned idea of having to "make up" lost revenue, as if anything were lost.
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They're still in the "paper mindset" because they're still selling on paper. In a sense, they're competing with themselves when they offer an e-book while also offering a hardcover. Every e-book sold means one fewer paper book sold of that same title.