Thread: Will the Amazon Kindle cost US$50?
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Old 12-23-2006, 12:31 PM   #97
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Originally Posted by Tom Swift
That is what I find frustrating. The publishers are sitting on tons of older material, still under copyright but not being published. If they sold it in electronic format, they could make some money from their back catalogue instead of making no money from it just sitting there. The Burroughs estate gets nothing from the books not being published. If they released the books in paper format, the profit would not be massive because most of the fans of his work have the books already (I know I used to).
A (frightening)thought here. How many classic book would not be published today because they don't fit in the marketing tastes and plans now in favor?
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