Thread: Why e-books?
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Old 11-15-2016, 02:20 PM   #415
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Nobody is to blame but the author for signing away digital publishing rights without first getting a guarantee that the books would in fact be published as ebooks.
Gruenfeld's books were published before ebooks became something to consider; in the mid 1980s through the 1990s. There were ebooks then but nobody cared.

In any case the point of this isn't to assign blame. I think we're discussing how our system works and how it might be improved.

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