Comments on: Can $4.99 e-bestsellers help ‘save’ the book publishing industry? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/can-499-e-bestsellers-help-save-the-book-publishing-industry/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:33:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/can-499-e-bestsellers-help-save-the-book-publishing-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-819715 David Rothman Sat, 31 May 2008 18:51:54 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/31/can-499-e-bestsellers-help-save-the-book-publishing-industry/#comment-819715 DANIEL UDEN COMMENT, MAY 31: For this kind low end selling you need the marginal cost of production and distribution to go way below low, and in todays market with 10 different deliberatly incompatible formats and resellers trying to squeze the market you get way to much time consumption in the negotiation and preperation to get it off the ground without the demand for huge sales thats just not posible until we get a market where most consumers used computers as a kid. The focus on e-book readers over browser based subscription services is probably also an hinder. DANIEL UDEN COMMENT, MAY 31: For this kind low end selling you need the marginal cost of production and distribution to go way below low, and in todays market with 10 different deliberatly incompatible formats and resellers trying to squeze the market you get way to much time consumption in the negotiation and preperation to get it off the ground without the demand for huge sales thats just not posible until we get a market where most consumers used computers as a kid.

The focus on e-book readers over browser based subscription services is probably also an hinder.

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