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Originally Posted by Spectrum
"The right place for the e-book is after the hardcover but before the paperback," said Carolyn Reidy, CEO of Simon & Schuster, which is owned by CBS Corp. "We believe some people will be disappointed. But with new [electronic] readers coming and sales booming, we need to do this now, before the installed base of e-book reading devices gets to a size where doing it would be impossible."
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You do have to wonder at the reasoning of some of these people, it seems like a more logical approach would be to put out the ebook at the same time as the hardback and simply lower its price when the paperback comes out because delays won't actually help hardback sales, but would definitely harm ebook sales.