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<blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 9712472" data-attributes="member: 27957">And if none of those other methods are economical? If the choice isn't between digital and physical, but between existing and not existing?Look, I'm against unfair price gouging and against the &quot;own nothing rent everything&quot; model. But my parents were writers, and I'm very familiar with the bottleneck of physical publishing. Paper, printing, distribution, shelf space... it's like the &quot;You must be this tall to ride the ride&quot; sticks at an amusement park. If it isn't going to make enough profit to pay for all those things, plus the manpower involved, then it doesn't get made.Digital only lowers that bar immensely. There's a lot of small, specialized books that can exist as a digital only release because the economics are so different. The margins are still slim, but the difference between the account books being in the black or in the red is night and day. So if digital only is the price to pay for books I want existing, when they wouldn't exist otherwise, I'll pay it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kurotowa, post: 9712472, member: 27957"] And if none of those other methods are economical? If the choice isn't between digital and physical, but between existing and not existing? Look, I'm against unfair price gouging and against the "own nothing rent everything" model. But my parents were writers, and I'm very familiar with the bottleneck of physical publishing. Paper, printing, distribution, shelf space... it's like the "You must be this tall to ride the ride" sticks at an amusement park. If it isn't going to make enough profit to pay for all those things, plus the manpower involved, then it doesn't get made. Digital only lowers that bar immensely. There's a lot of small, specialized books that can exist as a digital only release because the economics are so different. The margins are still slim, but the difference between the account books being in the black or in the red is night and day. So if digital only is the price to pay for books I want existing, when they wouldn't exist otherwise, I'll pay it. [/QUOTE]

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