Just a quick question - how certain can we be that publishing electronically will increase profits for niche publishers? If you can sell through Amazon, are you usefully increasing your audience by providing electronic copies? If you sell more 'locally', would you benefit from a wider audience - would many more people actually want to buy books from a small fish in a distant sea? (see - this book stuff is definitely fishy business!)
Against that, what realistically is the set up cost of providing ebooks to a commercial standard? How much does it cost a publisher to convert a single book?
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