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Originally Posted by murraypaul
That is a pBook mindset. With pBooks they will have a limited shelf life in bookshops before they are returned, so you have to maximise sales in a short time window, then dump it for the next book to come along.
With eBooks, they all have unlimited shelf life. There is nothign stopping every eBook ever made to still be available to purchase, so it becomes a feasible business model to make money on the long tail of purchases, rather than having to push one best seller.
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Yes, But feasible is different from earning a lot of money. Publishing a book is a gamble. So the income from some few books will determine how much money you can spend on each gamble. Yes, you can maybe spend a lot less and maybe lower the quality and tale less risks and survive on feasibility. But this will change the kind of books that will be available.