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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
It is, but things do seem to be getting better.
Also I think some of them are unsure about putting the time/money into creating an ebook edition. The ebook market is showing great growth, but it's still pretty small overall. It does seem that when some publishers need to do the work to do a new printing of a book that that's the time they also put the extra into putting out an e-edition too.
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This seems really shortsighted to me although I get it. But then these authors can't figure out why their books are now being downloaded illegally all over. In this day and age, authors really need to just accept the world of technology and encourage the idea of smaller formats and lower prices.
I do agree, its still a small market, but its an old market really. Even before dedicated readers books were read online. Seems stupidly shortsighted in a lot of cases.
In the case of Amber, its even worse to me. We're talking a 1,000 page book that really SHOULD be in a e-format. The thing is stupidly huge and e-format would save about 7" of shelf space.