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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I think publishers wouldn't mind making the usage of ebooks so cumbersome that people actually *would* return to paper books.
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Common misconception. If the big publishers
really wanted everyone to return to paper and give up on ebooks, they'd just stop
selling ebooks (while camping out on the rights to do so). No, they may have kicked up their heels at first, but they've been in full-on
cake-and-eat-it-too mode for quite some time now. They want readers to be able to buy the hardback, the trade-PB, the MMPB,
and two copies of the ebook, if they're so inclined.
Nobody's going to invest in the hardware infrastructure upgrades necessary to stream every book ever published one page at a time to millions of readers' who are going to scream bloody murder the first time there's a connectivity issue when they're ten pages away from the grand finale.
Cripes, it sounds like something straight out of a Jasper Fforde book: "Text Grand Central was down for over five hours this weekend before JurisTech could track down the glitch."