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Originally Posted by dickloraine
As far as I know, they didn't change what they were doing. But sells shifting from ebooks to paper books means a loss to the publishers, since the profit on ebooks is much higher than on paper books. Another thing, that makes their actions questionable. Why push for the lower profit market? Only out of fear to devalue the price of books? Believing the whole market of books would not grow enough? Fear of losing control? Acting out of fear/emotions was never a good practice.
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Fear of piracy. It's completely impractical to pirate paper books.
(Yes you can scan, but the Big 5 are thinking about physical copies.)