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At least one publisher has made a decision to withhold an e-book edition of a forthcoming book to preserve demand for a hardcover edition. Sourcebooks, an independent publisher, is releasing “Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse,” a novel aimed at children, in September in hardcover. It will hold back the e-book until six months later.
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All this will do is kill off demand for this book. People that do not buy hardcovers and do buy eBooks will not buy this because of being treated like second class citizens. So way to go killing off sales.
And the article keeps going on about the Kindle. Not everyone has a Kindle and without a Kindle or an iPhone/iPod Touch, you cannot purchase eBooks from Amazon. So if you don't have a Kindle, it's not a matter of get the hardcover or get the eBook from Amazon.