[sassanik]

I don't buy that publishing ebooks is as expensive as hardbacks or even paperbacks. But I can see how a big publishing house that has been around a while will have trouble with the conversion. They probably can and/or need to cut some jobs out that are obsolete with the production of ebooks. I imagine that many of them don't see how its possible to do that.

It will require a change in thinking on their part and I imagine that many of them are reluctant to do so. As a result they are losing out to smaller publishing houses that specialize in ebooks.

I don't even know if these publishers are even on their radars, but they should be. If you look at fictionwise and bob's top authors, not all of them are from the big publishing houses, it seems that authors from the smaller ebook speciality publishers are coming up more and more frequently.

If they do not change they will shoot themselves in the foot the way Apple did so many years ago when they demanded hardware and software control of their products, and Microsoft was willing to liscence their software out.

If the big publishers think they can charge such high prices and don't realize that there are lean mean little publishing houses out there perfectly willing to chip away at their profits, they will loose out big time.

Amy