Coker also took notice of the publishing industry's recent decision to withhold e-book versions of frontlist titles as a defense against cannibalizing book sales: (ditchwalk.com)
Publishers are withholding e-book sales of frontlist titles because they believe that e-book sales will cannibalize book sales. (ditchwalk.com)
While we can expect ebook sales for frontlist titles to rise as more and more readers move online, as they become comfortable with their ereading and they begin to explore, we should also expect the long tail to do even better in ebook and digital format than it currently does in physical form, especially if the effort put into those titles is even a little more than nothing. (eoinpurcellsblog.com)