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Originally Posted by griffonwing
I don't thing Hardback sales will ever be cannibalized. There are too many people who purchase the hardbacks for collections.
I see ebooks really only taking over the paperback sales.
This is regular ebooks, not manuals/pdfs/textbooks etc...
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Current practice with many publishers is to hold off the paperback release until about a year after the hardcover release, to try to make as many high-margin sales as possible. Would it be better, do you think (plural "you" here), for publishers to hold off a year for ebooks, or charge hardcover prices for the first year? (Or a price at equivalent profit margin, as presumably a new ebook would be less expensive to generate than a print run of hardcovers?)