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Batch releases make sense for publishers becuase since the real cost of an electronic book is in the labor and since there is currently no technology out there that will allow computers to do the conversion automatically the publisher will need to task one of their employees to the task of converting the novel. Since labor is the real cost they can give the employee one hundred books to scan and keep him/her working for a while rather than making the employee start and stop. So releaseing books as a batch in electronic format is a bit more efficent for publishers unless there is a big demand for a certain book in electronic format when the company might add it to the current batch or do a special run, however the special run might cost a bit more since there are additional labor costs involved.
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