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Originally Posted by zacheryjensen
I'm quite positive the real reason is to pad their numbers. The availability of products in eBook stores has been a major negative point for eBooks for a long time. Amazon touts 300,000 books or whatever, and you'll see a contest going back and forth, at least to investors at financial results meetings, to show who has the most choices available
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*nod* Yup, I think that's a big part of it. Although it's funny, really - I can't see that ever having happened in (modern) paper publishing. Not enough pbooks to fill a store???
So it seems to me that the lack of ebook versions of pbooks probably has caused a lot of interest in self-published works, from the retailers AND the consumers, simply because the self-publishers happened to be there, with some quality writing, with the correct format, and amenable to sensible distribution agreements.