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Why Publishers Are Still Tentative About E-Books

  • Wired, Friday, June 7, 2013 3:13 PM
"While readers have enthusiastically embraced digital publishing, the book industry itself has continually dragged its heels," writes Rachel Edidin in this thoughtful analysis of the heel-dragging syndrome. Revealing anecdote: when Edidin asks a publicist at Book Expo America if she can get a digital version of the hardcover book the publicist is offering, "she stares at me like I’ve just asked her to strip down in the middle of the Javits Center."

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