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Originally Posted by llasram
I don't know what publishers care about. LIT has been broken since at least 2002 (or so I'm guessing by the copyright statement on most of the ConvertLIT source files) and Mobipocket and eReader are broken as of last year. If publishers were actually afraid of piracy they would stop publishing books in those formats.
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They are afraid and with good reason. With digital distribution, traditional publishers are obsolete and they know it. That is the main reason why they are very reluctant to expand the ebook business. In the long run it will hurt them a lot:
Once ebooks catch on, prices will be driven down, maintaining a website is not the same as maintaining a printing press and a distribution business. That is why we see ebooks priced at the same or higher as paper books. That is why we see the lack of a universal ebook format. That is why we see DRM solutions and proprietary formats. That is why we see limited availability of ebooks. That is why we see series that only have a few books in ebook format.
Publishers are dragging their feet. They do not want ebooks to succeed at all. Their main goal is the keep ebooks as a niche market for geeks.