They were going to kill authors (and in
tiny print publishers, who got 90 % of the money and preferred that they killed authors).
Not exact matches
Shutterfly, Inc. consists of Shutterfly,
Tiny Prints, Wedding Paper Divas», This Life, My
Publisher, and Borrow Lenses.
It took me years of working in a bookstore to know which
publisher I needed to call to order a book without scanning it in the system or hunting the
tiny print on the copyright page.
Publishers are no longer compelled to pack
tiny text onto pages with thin margins to save thirty pages per book over a
print run of thousands.
What I'd like to see designers (or, more likely,
publishers or production editors who are making these decisions) avoid is just dumping the
print book cover, whatever it looks like, into the
tiny space of the ebook cover.
Such
publishers make possible glorious art books of high quality;
tiny print runs of stunning poetry collections; and works of regional interest that are incredibly hard to source via other
publishers.
A
tiny Australian
publisher then released them as ebooks and
print - on - demand paperbacks, selling about 250,000 copies.
i can understand regional protection for local markets, Australia / NZ has a
tiny retail market which would instantly be flooded by almost any import / export of AUS / US / EU
printed retail books, but what about the instance where there is no competing market, when the local distributor has no eBook version, has no plans to operate in the eBook market, and yet, local
publishers and local distributors have no ability to modify that geographic embargo for consumers, when they won't be competing in that market.