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Old 01-11-2009, 09:53 PM   #91
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan View Post
Jeffrey's not talking about begging. He's talking about exercising your right as a consumer to contact the publisher and say, "Hey! I'm a potential customer of yours, and what I want is an e-book version of X at a price that isn't a King's ransom." If enough people do that, with enough books, and back it up by buying them when they are available, publishers will take notice (or not, and perish, and good riddance).
I suspect that would be a waste of time. Any publisher who hasn't figured out by now that they should be selling ebooks is a dinosaur.

This is January 2009. The Kindle came out 13 months ago. Since then there have been quite a few news stories about the ebook sales increasing by a factor of 3 or more. Any publisher who hasn't realized the potential of ebooks is too dumb to learn.

P.S. This is why I have given up on TOR Books.
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