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The BWM publishers are all about print books, not ebooks. One of the reasons they missed the boat on ebooks and delivered the initiative to Amazon on a silver platter is that they have been so fixated on preserving their profitable print book oligopoly. To have any chance of succeeding against Amazon at selling ebooks they would have to abandon this mindset. No windowing. Cheaper pricing. Damaging their own Print Book sales in favour of ebooks. And even then, they are a long way behind. And, i suggest, as others already have, that they lack the expertise and the entrepreneurial spirit to succeed against Amazon. Maybe Apple, Google or even Microsoft may be prepared to partner with them, in which case they may at least manage to provide some competition to Amazon. Once the car comes along the demand for buggies goes way down.
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