Thread: Why E-Books Look So Ugly
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Old 09-03-2009, 02:52 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
I'm not sure how minimal the funds needed would be. Especially while they still insist on DRM.

With ebook sales being so small a part of the overall market I doubt you'll see them selling direct, without using a 3rd party distro, for a long time. If ever. They may feel that going into real competition with retailers would be ultimately a bad thing.
I think even with Adobe's DRM licensing, it would be a drop in the bucket for a publisher the size of Penguin for example to start offering professionally prooferad and prepared eBooks direct to the customers.

I agree with you that corporate nonsense might make such an approach ultimately unlikely. But it would be getting into a game that they'll have to enter sooner or later with an early advantage... and that hardly seems foolhardy.

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