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Originally Posted by Poppaea
????? Why?
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Because her publishers can easily keep printing physical books along with the digital versions.
There's nothing about putting out a digital copy that makes all the physical copies people buy for their kids suddenly vanish in a puff of smoke. All she's done is take away one choice of format. Her logic is very strange, and makes no sense.
I think she's going to find that while digital releases may sell a bit at first, for many it may be too little, too late. I actually got my copies of the series for my kids used, off a trading site, and got the last book at a library sale for $1. They were just too big and I don't have the space to keep them, so traded them back out after I'd read them. So she didn't really get any money from me.
But I'd have bought digital copies at the time, since that's my favorite way to read, I didn't have to find a corner to stack them in and wonder if I'd bother to keep them for grandchildren, or have to carry a huge book around with me to keep reading. I do want to re-read them some day, but now I think I've lost the interest for digital copies unless they're really, really cheap.
She should have struck when the interest was high, not when its growing cold.