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06-18-2010, 10:47 AM | #288 |
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"Beside having to deal with PDF, the conversion into ePub or Mobi causes additional e-book specific production costs."
Lets see. Additional ebook conversion costs. Hmmmm Maybe they download a pirated copy of their over priced book from the internet. Then, because the pirated copy stinks, they have to pay "additional staff" to clean it up. After cleaning it up they then have to change it, by hand, to each format (epub etc.). OK. It makes sense now. He has staff telling him that it takes 3 people a week or 2 to convert to each ebook format. Perhaps he should ask Kovid about Calibre. |
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Yes, once you have an ebook you can sell it for eternity without any new production costs. But the ebook market is still in development and we are still paying for early-adaptor status. |
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I see no evidence from anyone here or elsewhere of any significant development or initial investment costs sufficient to justify these high costs and hence my statement about the mind-set of the Publishers. |
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People are demanding not only all new books coming out as ebooks, but also the complete back-catalogue. In both cases currently the market is still relatively small, keep in mind we are still early adaptors and ebooks are still a luxury product even compared to normal books. The publishers need to convert an immense amount of works to ebook-format. Which might be easy, but especially for older works needs quite some effort - scanning, OCR, editing (although evidence suggests this is too often skipped ), formatting etc.. This all is an investment, which needs to be recovered. As far as I know publishers don't usually swim in money, and borrowing it in the current market might be a bit expensive as well. So it to me makes some sense that the publishers want to regain their investments in an as short as possible time to be able to keep on putting out books. If the publishers in their current form have a future is a different question, but I think they have some added value in the process of creating books I want to read. |
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The publishers could store the original document, the PDF, the print ready copy, and all the eBook copies for very little storage. |
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Anyway, all these cries of ebooks not being significantly cheaper than paper editions are a red herring when ebooks are often still being sold at equal or higher prices than the paper editions of the same book. |
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Even if there were, and you may be right, it would still appear to me that these publishers are keeping their head in the sand looking for immediate coverage of such an investment when they should know full well that ebooks are not a whim or a fancy. They are the future. |
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06-20-2010, 12:38 PM | #297 |
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One issue I have with eBooks is in terms on ongoing series. It seems they put out the new eBooks and yet don't put out the older ones and if they do and did, they'll be in a different format that you have to strip the DRM to be able to convert to use.
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