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Very interesting article. I thought it was funny how the publishers think that if bookstores disappear, backlist sales will be hurt. If they really wanted to increase their sales of backlist books, they would make them all available as ebooks at a reasonable price (say $5?).
I was looking into buying an ebook version of Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (one of my favorite authors). The book was originally published in 1996, but the ebook version is $12.99 on Amazon. $12.99! For a book that was originally published 15 years ago! I would have bought it for $5-7, but not for $12.99! (Penguin is her publisher btw.)
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