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Originally Posted by jbjb
Publishers are essentially in the business of managing and controlling the distribution of information.
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I do not think that is the business. If the business was managing information they would have looked very different. The business it to sell books and earn money. They have there old streamlined procedures that works very well for printing and selling books. Why should the change something that works to something that is more expensive?
I think you underestimate the time it takes to implement a new system and the extra time it take for people to use it. And to use it correctly. And to use it when a disk crash just before a deadline and so on.