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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
It seems to me that the publishers were quick to start issuing new titles as eBooks. They also were quick to let them be sold at the same time as hardcover editions -- with the eBooks commonly sold at paperback prices. That, to me, refutes the technophobe meme.
Genre readers may think big publishers are problematic when the genre books appear to be subsidizing the rest of the operation. I do see non-fiction eBooks that are three times longer than a genre fiction or off-the-cuff advice title, and took ten times longer to write, priced at just thirty percent more. Maybe genre can't keep on subsidizing war reportage and biography like that forever. But so long as there is any kind of business case for it, please keep trying.
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Just because a book is longer, does not automatically mean it took longer to write. In some cases if you know your non-fiction subject well, you may be able to write it quite quickly if you are organized and dedicated.
That's not to belittle the effort that goes into them, but there is no reason these tomes can't be self-published. Sure, you'd have to check the credentials, but that is the case now. Just because it is labeled non-fiction doesn't mean it's legit or well-researched. It's still a pick and choose world.
My point is those books will not go away even if the publishers change.
And I do recall Macmillian trying very hard not to release ebooks at the same time as harbacks and so on. The publishing industry did not embrace ebooks wholeheartedly at all.