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Originally Posted by HarryT
Why do you say that? The major publishers are making healthy profits, and the vast majority of their income comes from paper books. It's perhaps easy to get a distorted view of the publishing world here at MR; eBooks are still very much a minority interest.
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True at this very moment, but pbooks are starting to look like Blackberries 2 years ago. You see the tidal wave coming but nobody is running. Everybody says, hey, "look how beautiful it is here on the beach".
E-books have gone from almost 0 to more than 20% in just 2 years. They might very well go to 80% in another two. Manufacturers of printing presses are going bankrupt right now. Everybody must get ready, saying "pbooks are still the vast majority of sales" doesn't cut it. We all know that won't last long. And just blaming it all on Amazon won't do them any good, either.