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Old 04-06-2010, 03:53 PM   #164
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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon View Post
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.
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.
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