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Originally Posted by SolRaven
I don't know if this has been mentioned in this thread, but I believe part of the reason publishers are so resistant to ebooks is because other than marketing, authors won't need them to distribute their digital copies. As an author you might find it hard to give a publisher a cut of the profit of the book that you just spent a year writing when you can publish it your self digitally.
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Don't underestimate the technical challenge of producing a well-formatted, saleable eBook. While most of the users on this forum are extremely technologically adept, most people, including authors, are not. Isn't it a better use of their time to become better writers, rather than learning how to be passable eBook coders?
Until there is a single eBook standard and a truly fool-proof, one-click tool for creating that standard, publishers and their vendors still have a vital production role to play.