Thread: Publishers still missing the point on e-book prices
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Old 12-26-2011, 07:36 PM   #336
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
Again, you seem to think, despite all evidence to the contrary, that publishers are declining. Or even that their decline is accelerating. They aren't and it isn't.

Publisher revenues are up, publisher sales are up, and publisher profits are up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/bo...pagewanted=all

Now of course things might change, but right now publishers seem to be doing very well, and it seems to be happening because people are buying their e-books.
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-n...udio-growing-/

Well down on last year with ebook growth slowed....

So if they are making more money, apparently not from book sales, overall.
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