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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
If they show the growth of ebook sales, is it really that difficult to show the decline of pbook sales?
What does:
mean anyway? And are they going to stop printing mmpb because of ebooks?
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It likely doesn't matter one bit to the publisher whether ebooks are taking sales away from mmpb. Money is money, after all.
Now if you are SELLING mmpb's, but you don't sell ebooks - THEN this would be a disturbing trend.
Are they going to stop printing mmpb? Well, consider music cd's. There was a time when entire stores existed to do nothing but sell music. With the rise of eMusic (both legal and illegal), the sales of cd's plummeted and with them the dedicated music store. Now you can only find cd's as departments within stores like WalMart/Target and the like.
We see in the bankruptcy of Borders that the day of the dedicated book store is threatened.
10 years out -- yes, it is possible that mmpb's will have gone the way of the dodo.
Lee