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Originally Posted by Yar-PocketBooker
recently we (PocketBook-USA) were on one of the trade shows, called "Publishing Business"... To my sheer surprise, publishers and near-publishing community, present at this show, were absolutely not-knowledgeable about e-readers, ebooks and e-reading in general...
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Hate to break it to you but the folks that run or work at most of the "Big Publishing Houses" (BPHs) are stuck in the 19th century. Totally clueless about matters of technology, consumer affairs, economics and pricing theory, or ebooks, for that matter. As near as I can tell, at some of the Manhattan glass towers, they still use floppies as storage media, sneakernet as document management, and desktop PCs (probably 286s) with mounted FTP folders as shared repositories. (And no, I'm not joking.)
This is a long recurring subject over at Teleread.org where, btw, they yesterday posted an amazing interview with the head of Baen Publishing, the *one* (midsized) Publisher that truly gets all of the above. They've been doing ebooks the right way since the last century. Might want to check it out to get the sour taste out of your mouth.
A good site to visit for anybody interested in ebooks and modern day publishing issues, btw.