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Originally Posted by DaleReeck
Not every book is available in every format.
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Or available at all.
Which is what is really holding ebooks back.
Simple drill: look at th NYT Best seller's list; how many of the top 100 are available in ebook form? At what list price?
Or, check the monthly mailer from any of the book clubs; How many of the selections are available in ebook form at all?
Sure, out-of-copyright stuff is readily available.
(And Penguin is not amused. My heart fair bleeds for them. Not!)
And some publishers, like Baen, go out of their way to have a solid catalog. But even *they* don't offer their full catalog in ebook form.
The sheer hit-or-miss nature of the offerings coupled with the erratic prices and downright stupid designs and pricing for most of the dedicated reader hardware is holding back the development of ebooks and all the fuss over formats is just fiddling on the margins.
Meaningless.