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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
3) Tor is a relatively small publisher that is just gearing up for ebooks, and doesn't have the financial resources to indulge your every whim. (I.e. they are not delaying the ebook to push sales of the hardcover, it's because they're trying to get a ton of other ebooks out the door.)
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Not true at all. Their corporate parent - who is far from small, just has senior management who are not competent to run the business in this environment.
e.g.:
"“Given the fact that people now have the Internet, almost 24-hour football entertainment in the fall, tennis matches from around the world, TV shows out the wazoo, and movies, do you really believe that people are going to be reading more because they can get it on a screen?” said John Sargent, chief executive of Macmillan, owner of imprints like Farrar, Straus and Giroux and St. Martin’s Press. “I don’t see the scenario.”"
That's one of the dumbest statements I have seen in a long, long, long time. Want someone this blind and ignorant controlling the strategic vision of a large company?
Err.. no.