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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
And how enthusiastic will a foreign publisher who purchased rights to offer a book in their market be about a competing ebook version from a publisher elsewhere? Not very.
Dennis
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Here's another question: how enthusiastic will publishers be to find out that they have lost actual sales because customers who wanted to buy the book were unable to? I recently emailed an author whose books were previously available in eReader and were now only in mobipocket, and I directly told her she lost a sale as I would have bought the book if it was in eReader as I was accustomed to. She was, I assure you, very concerned
I think we are seeing a shift toward publishing being les about what the publishers want and more about what the customers want, just as we did with the music industry beginning to capitulate on DRM. Honestly, there is so much competition for people's entertainment dollar these days that publishers should be happy to get sales any way they can.