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NYT: Ebooks and Fiction are Reviving the Book Biz
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/bo...e-2008.html?hp
"The publishing industry has expanded in the past three years as Americans increasingly turned to e-books and juvenile and adult fiction... In 2010 publishers generated net revenue of $27.9 billion, a 5.6 percent increase over 2008. Publishers sold 2.57 billion books in all formats in 2010, a 4.1 percent increase since 2008." |
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I wonder what the "woe is me, we're being killed by the ebook business" publishers are going to say in reply to this? (If anything at all)
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It may still be a tough transition for small publishers with large back catalogs, though. It's not cheap to convert all those books and negotiate digital rights for older titles. |
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And that doesn't even count self-publishers. At the moment everybody seems to be benefitting from the spread of e-books, but I wonder what the longer-term pressures on the agency pricing model will be as more and more people are able to avoid going through the big houses either to sell or to buy books.
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Bad editing turns me off a book right off as well, but since most e-publishers allow free samples, I find that I can separate the wheat from the chaff fairly quickly. |
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