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Old 04-17-2009, 03:23 PM   #92
Amalthia
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They are not the only ones, for the record. There are a number of small pubs and independents that provide similarly customer-friendly service and value. And just as Napster influenced online music enterprise, hopefully the influence of indies and small pubs will eventually influence the big pubs to be more customer-friendly.
I think Baen is still the biggest publisher that offers such a nice service for the moment though.

I think Harlequin is another..but I'm not a big romance reader.

It's the other big publishers that are holding the industry at a standstill because a lot of the popular authors aren't signed onto the smaller publishers they are locked into contracts with the big name publishers.

I do hope what you predict will happen. Because this is getting quite frustrating wanting to buy ebooks but unable to find affordable copies of the ebooks I want to read.
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