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Originally Posted by fugazied
This is just sad, damn publishers and their piracy paranoia. I think most readers who enjoy ebooks enough to purchase an expensive reader have decided to just buy ebooks. They don't want to lug around a weighty 1000 page hardcover, defeats the purpose of their reader purchase.
I don't think the ebook delay would help print sales at all apart from the most hardcore King fans who need the book immediately. They just lose christmas ebook purchasers who buy other books for their christmas hollidays.
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Piracy isn't the issue here. Sales of hardbacks can bring in big profits. After all they only cost slightly more to produce than a paperback, and yet are usually sold at a substantially higher MSRP. Publishers view ebooks as a major threat to this age-old business practice.