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An awful lot of the books and ebooks published these days are done "print on demand" by independent publishers or ebook distributors such as Smashwords and Dreamspinner. Even a great many Amazon distributed printed books are from independents or Amazon themselves and the printed versions are done with on-demand printing. How much longer will the big publishers survive once B&N goes under? How many hardbacks are sold by Walmart? I am surprised that most college textbooks are not sold directly by the teaching professor or through the college bookstore in PDF format.
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