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Originally Posted by jemc
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Thank you. My memory is not so good.
Re buggy whip makers, a bunch of them tried becoming auto parts makers, and didn't do well:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/bu...digi.html?_r=0
And one buggy whip maker who stuck to its knitting while charging rather high prices -- exactly what darryl, in
#616, implies will doom big publishers -- has outlived them all:
http://westfieldwhip.com/carriage.html
If the publishers really were emulating Westfield Whip, they wouldn't even be selling eBooks. Perhaps, publishing executives were so indoctrinated in the let's-make-fun-of-buggy-whip-manufacturers meme that anyone who suggested holding out again issuing titles as eBooks, at least until the same time the paperback came out, was laughed away.
This isn't meant to be an attempt to argue a point, but to broaden the discussion a bit.