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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
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:
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.
A 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. |
I expect the 30% consider "piracy" the most important consideration...