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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Which "publishers" are you talking about? Sony? Apple? Amazon? The ones that made dedicated eReaders available? Calling them publishers would be totally inaccurate, except that they are adding certain elements to the ebooks. Elements that cause a good deal of the discussion here on MR.
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I never considered the device makers as publishers... not sure why you thought I did... but it is worth considering their place in this, as they are trying to create devices to please largely-slow publishers and largely-fickle readers, and so are stuck between a rock and a hard place. It's no wonder they have taken steps to control one or (in Amazon and Apple's case) both sides, to create a more predictable and tractable market for its devices.
As you point out:
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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
The issues that the "early adopters" take note of, are the very ones that may have a real impact on what the company is prepared to offer, in the future. (my emphasis)
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That's a big "may," and the publishers aren't being very proactive about most of those issues, leading this consumer to believe they
may hope most of those issues will blow over.
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survey cited at TeleRead this morning states that "70 percent of 411 respondents to a survey drawn from a cross section of the publishing industry cited ‘quality’ as the most important consideration when publishing an eBook."
"70 percent?" That's
all?
I simply don't know how any publisher could consider anything to be more important than ebook quality. But apparently 30% of them do.