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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Paperback originals were mostly focused on long-form so short story writers lost a lot of markets when the pulps went away. Also, some authors double-dipped--pulps and books--so the move to paperback originals wasn't a net win for everybody.
Disruptions bring both winners and losers, as we're seeing with ebooks, which is why the entrench players resist them.
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Point taken, especially with ebooks now. I mean from what I understand with traditional publishing the author got a certain amount of the $ for their work but it was limited by how widely published the work could be in paper (with translations as well) but if you look at markets like Amazon you get a higher percentage of the $ and a lot more people can get a given book a lot faster than any paper book could be distributed since it isn't necessary to print the books out on paper or transport them etc. Paper is limited by the speed of the vehicle transporting the books but ebooks are only limited by the speed at which information can be transmitted over a modem connection.