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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Nuts, sorry. The back catalogue is the single key to making ebooks work. They should be engaged in a crash project - with temp staff if need be - to bring every single last work they have rights on into ebook format.
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But publishers aren't in business to make ebooks work. They're in business to make money. Spending lots of money now on temp workers to convert a massive back catalogue is a good route to bankruptcy.
Not that back catalogue isn't important! But I think that they can't afford a crash program.