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Originally Posted by DDHarriman
1 – editors hate eBooks, they do not want them, they do not like them, they see them as a danger and not as an opportunity, they fly from eBooks they would do from the plague;
2 – to help kill eBooks at birth, editors have tried everything and more, they have put from the first time on eBooks at prices far superior to hardbacks, they have supported, and even tried to invent as many different formats as they can – more formats = more confusion = less credibility = eBooks as a concept die -, they have begun online Bookshops, and then close them 6/12 moths later letting costumers in the cold… everything and more to show that eBooks is a error, no one wants them etc… etc… etc…
3 – editors cry out for more and more restrictive DRM, they can not live without it (they say) and we can not live without it (they also say!) and in the day DRM eBooks stop to exists anarchy will install itself in the world, writers will die of starvation, or plain stop writing because the thiefs all around the world will stop to pay for the beloved eBooks, and the book universe will stop to exist;
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None of that is true, in my experience. Editors don't do anything of these things. Do you really think
editors are the ones responsible for all these formats? It's the business brains, not the editors. Editors want the books they edit out in as many ways as possible. Not all editors understand ebooks, true. But I've never met an editor for whom a single allegation stated above is true.
Ebooks are a different model, and it's taking time for
publishers, not editors, to learn the right way to do it. It can't happen overnight.