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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
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. |
Teleread may have typo'd that: MediaBistro says that
70% Of Publishers Release eBooks For ‘Equality’, meaning usable-on-all-readers (by which they seem to mean, both Adobe & Kindle DRM) Checking the
DCL site doesn't turn up actual survey results or even mention; maybe it's a special-subscribers-only thing.
Publishers first being interested in number of sales platforms, followed by cost, sounds much more like what I've come to expect from publishers. I was rather surprised that publishers would say they were "concerned" about quality at all; they seem to be fairly oblivious to the fact that quality issues exist.