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Originally Posted by Hrafn
Could this be from publishers/authors that are too small to be able to afford the additional (typesetting, printer setup, etc) fixed costs of publishing two different formats, as they don't have enough total sales to make market segmentation profitable?
Of course the extreme form of that phenomenon would be a publisher who released a book, as a pbook, only as print-on-demand (low fixed costs, but considerably higher incremental/per-unit costs).
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It's possible; I haven't been keeping track of who publishes what. My fear is that the publishers crank the price up on the trade paperbacks to maximize return, then when sales are low, decide that there isn't enough interest to warrant a MMPB release. But I could be wrong. Maybe the publishers know what they're doing, and the people who used to buy paperbacks don't anymore.