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Publisher margins today may be enviable, but it will be a big challenge to keep them that way

June 26, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 33 Comments

The major publishers have apparently worked themselves into a very strong commercial position at the moment with the transition to ebooks. I say “apparently” because the data that gives the most recent rise to that understanding — a presentation by HarperCollins of the current economics — is somewhat incomplete. What Michael Cader reported in Publishers […]

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