Why Are Publishers Telling Us E-Books Are So Profitable? Another Book-Business Fallacy
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Coverage of the Hachette-vs-Amazon dispute has recycled various misconceptions about what's happening, as Michael Cader noted Wednesday in Publishers Lunch. But one of the most widespread fallacies you may hear, and not just relating to Hachette/Amazon, is that "e-books have been more profitable for publishers than print books," as Evan Hughes put it in Slate. The chunky margins generated by e-books, the thinking goes, are what the publisher and the 600-pound gorilla of bookselling are tussling for.
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