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Cthulhu · 02-16-2008, 01:40 AM

Regarding backlists, publishers need to read about the long tail

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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail_pr.html

With hope, the old business model with adapt to embrace the new digital model, and that means bringing the price of literary content more in-line with reality.

Personally, all ways loathed going to a used bookstore, finding a book for which I ardently searched, and ended paying $4.00 for a book that cost $0.78 when first published.

02-16-2008, 01:40 AM	#3
Cthulhu Technologist Posts: 488 Karma: 585237 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: I'm between Cities Device: SONY Reader PRS-500	Regarding backlists, publishers need to read about the long tail Code: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail_pr.html With hope, the old business model with adapt to embrace the new digital model, and that means bringing the price of literary content more in-line with reality. Personally, all ways loathed going to a used bookstore, finding a book for which I ardently searched, and ended paying $4.00 for a book that cost $0.78 when first published.