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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i agree with what many other people have already said. which makes me wonder ; if these problems are so obvious as to elicit a quasi-consensus amongst the population most concerned by them, why *exactly* have publishers not caught on yet ?
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Simply put, because it doesn't add up on their ledgers. Unless they see the profit in making the effort to produce and sell e-books, they won't move. In addition, it is too far outside of their production "comfort zone," meaning extra effort (and money) to invest in speculation and new business models, which they'd rather not do. This is why it is the newbies that are making the e-book publishing progress, and the established pubs that are picking up others' methods, or buying the newbies and taking over their methods.