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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
..However there are a lot of Luddites in almost any industry, and a small publisher might find it a bit onerous to hire staff to prep e-books, particularly if margins are already thin. I believe they might also need to negotiate with the authors (and/or their estates) for e-book publishing rights; even if the authors etc are receptive, that still incurs staff and legal costs that a small publisher might not want to deal with...
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Actually their comments reveal this publisher doesn't understand all the facts of eBook publishing. Unless they are still using one of the old Linotype machines that lays up and prints each page from lead slugs, then they already have a digital version of the books they publish. Fictionwise can prepare Multiformat eBooks from digital files for them for less than $50, according to a post last year in the Fictionwise forum on Yahoo. Negotiating publishing rights is done up-front--it's only their backlist (if they publish it) that has to be renegotiated.