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Originally Posted by kazbates
I also do not believe that anyone would write or edit a book in today's technology-driven age using paper and pencil.
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I've heard a few people comment that they actually do all of their writing in longhand (surprises me, too). They may be writing poetry...
But this is clearly one of those industries where many of the major participants hold onto traditional practices with a death grip. It's only partially surprising, as print publishing hadn't changed significantly for most of a century (again, one of the few industries that can make that claim), prompting the set-in-their-ways players to naturally enter denial when change began to loom over them. It is always the people who have been so comfortable, for so long, that protest most loudly about finally having to change.
Those people also have the hardest time finally changing, and many of them simply won't make it. But in their wake, new players will emerge, embracing the new ways, and the field will enter a new phase. At this point, it's only a matter of time.
Present e-book prices reflect the present publishing business model, which is already being shaken to its core by modern demands. It will be replaced by a business model that will be adapted to the strengths of the new tech, new sales models, new consumers, and new authors, and will outright reject many of the old practices as anachronisms. The wave is coming, but it's not close to cresting yet.