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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes, if that's the case, that's certainly a very likely reason that there's no ebook.
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In the early 1930's, Laura Ingalls Wilder's agent offered her memoirs to publishers without success. I'm pretty sure it was intended to a narrative text that would fit, today, into the eBook format. If her survivors had offered the text to a big-five publisher, in the eBook era, and they agreed to publish it, I think there would be an eBook.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
In the NY publishing universe it has become pretty much an article of faith that ebooks (and especially cheap ebooks) are a threat to *all* publishers . . .
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And yet they release the eBook on the same day as the hardback, and commonly sell eBooks at paperbook-competing prices once the paperback is out.
I would compare this eBook article of faith to the political views of "the NY publishing universe." That article of faith, or whatever you want to call it, doesn't prevent them from publishing the campaign biographies of candidates of both major US political parties.
Of course, there are people who vote for both major parties in any big, or medium-sized, American corporation -- even in Manhattan. Just as there are likely people in every medium-sized company, publisher or otherwise, who like or dislike eBooks. I would try to look at the behavior, not the motive.