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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
I suppose the bolded is an accurate assessment. It is hard for me to wrap my head around the disconnect between lending paper and lending bits.
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I don't see a difference either. But publishers sure do. They're afraid of what digital technology means to their bottom line. With paper books, they had several tiers to generate profits from (HC, TPB, MMPB). Not so with ebooks; the cheapest of all formats. They need to trim operations and reduce their overhead if they expect to survive in a digital world. Impeding progress will only hurt them.