On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 21:12 +0000, Bruno Girin wrote: > For a publisher, the traditional business model is based on acquiring > the rights to reproduce a text, producing physical items out of this > text, shifting those books to distributors and selling the physical > objects. > > Most of the cost is in the distribution ...
Incorrect. Most of the cost is in the non-physical stuff: editing, typesetting, marketing, and other forms of production. Regards, Tyler -- "I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas." -- Johann Hari -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/