tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990922102626688253.post3591126832521078108..comments2023-04-15T11:42:35.385-04:00Comments on Go To Hellman: eBook Identifier Confusion Shakes Book IndustryErichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14172740163003223132noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990922102626688253.post-57424247082760438702011-01-26T10:49:19.623-05:002011-01-26T10:49:19.623-05:00It seems to me an important point is being overloo...It seems to me an important point is being overlooked (or ignored). The basic problem, it appears to me, is that major publishers and those who follow their lead insist on total control of pricing. You said yourself it's a major factor, but then move on to other things.<br /><br />The independent ebook publishers, who've been successfully selling ebooks for more than a decade, have one price per title--the "cover price," if you will. Some used ISBNs, some didn't, but those who did, and do, apply one ISBN per title, list it as "electronic/multiple format" and move on. Works just fine.<br /><br />If mainstream publishing would stop trying so hard to squeeze every penny out of their ebooks to pay for their print side, we likely wouldn't even be having this discussion. Maybe it's time to stop dancing around the fact--mainstream publishing, like the recording industry before it, is determined to cram the square peg that is ebooks into the round hole of "this is how we intend to do it."Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09877467572070539509noreply@blogger.com