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Originally Posted by DixieGal
IMHO, it seems to me that expecting all books to be available in all formats is asking a lot from publishers. It would be an inventory nightmare! Such a system would practically require book orders to be processed individually to meet the desires of purchasers, which would be labor-intensive and cause the price of books in any format to skyrocket.
Not that I wouldn't personally love to have any book I desired in any format I wished for... ;-)
DixieGal
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There's not that many formats though...
They have to have their own internal format. That's the basic one that they'll send to the printers etc.
From that to an eBook I would imagine is, well, 5 minutes work.
And after that there's paperback or hardback. If they don't want a hardback they don't have to have one. Not all books come out on hardback, and there's no real reason to change that.
And then there's audio books, again not all books come out in audio format. Generally audio formats trail paper formats, although there are exceptions for very popular books.
I'm not suggesting that publishers make more formats available, I'm suggesting they charge us for the content, and then charge us a second time for the costs (and only the costs) of our particular form of delivery.