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Originally Posted by pdurrant
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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What? In *THIS* economy?!? Temp workers are cheap, Cheap, CHEAP!!! Hell, just hiring 20 temps and building 20 of those digicam book scanners would be cheap enough to do the job for any major publisher. Or they can just wait it out. In which case, the average reader will become so dissatisfied that you'll see thousands of $100 digicam book scanners being built at home and the used-book stores raided for those OOP titles. (Remember, after the first 4 dozen titles purchased, one can, by trading back in, get another 3 dozen for free.)
But then, I believe I've made it clear that the major publishers are taking a 'Please let me cut my nose off to spite my face' approach to ebooks.
Derek