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Originally Posted by tomsem
It's also true that book publishers have been reluctant to fully embrace digital. Even with all the inefficiencies of producing and distributing and possibly pulping paper books. But it's mostly because they are serving a market, and it is more or less working out. For now.
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I'm not so sure about that. Borders closed, Barnes and Noble isn't what it used to be. The decrease in traffic at places like Half Price Books is noticeable.
No, not all that traffic is moving to ebooks of course. But the genre readers are. The ones that apparently buy and read more books than others.
I remember in the '90's when Miramax's indie movies were making such a splash, all the studios started their own 'indie productions'. Fox started Searchlight, Warner's had Warner Independent, Paramount had Paramount Vantage/Paramount Classics.
Maybe the big 5 should learn from that. Start their own division copying Open Road and Amazon's publishing. It seems it would be trivial for them to bring back cheap ebook exclusive editions of old OOP genre books that they originally published. They could likely even reuse the original cover artwork.