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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Poor publishers, they can't make their minds up. On the one hand, they complain because ebooks are placed in a different category than paper books and taxed higher as a result. Yet when libraries complain that ebooks are placed in a different category than paper books and given harsher loan restrictions, the publishers are quick to defend this differentiation.
Hypocrites!
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Well, these are not necessarily the same publishers.
The real point that jumped out at me is that these particular publishers are seeing the higher margins of ebooks and how much money (and low risk) it could bring them and they are starting to put distance between them and B&M bookstores.
That realization, that the interests of B&M stores aren't necessarily their interests is sooner or later going to lead the non-BPH publishers to follow Indies and specialty publishers into ebookland, bookstores be darned.
