Karin,
I was talking about on-demand print
publishing, not pdf file downloading and other e-book stuff.
I'm old fashioned enough to believe that most hard-boiled
fans will want to owning books andturning pages for a long
while.
Nevertheless, your point and the
problem of anyone except perhaps the publisher making money
from small volume sales is still a real one. Printing
technology is evolving so rapidly that it's difficult to
guess how cheap and good the low volume books can become, but
they're already pretty good, and the internet has opened a
low cost merchandising avenue for small, genre focused
publishers who built a platform for hawking their
wares.
I don't believe the big money will
ever come this way, but big money has rarely been part of the
picture for hard-boiled writers or publishers. Most mystery
writers and their translators will continue on short
rations.
Jim
Blue
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