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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis

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To: SG who wrote (18568)3/13/2009 12:48:33 PM
From: benwood  Read Replies (1) of 71475
 
oh, and speaking of monopolies, the self publishing biz has never been better. Someone on one of my forums has a photography book available, and my cousin just published a biography of one of my ancestors, and the up front costs were minimal. They print books on an as-needed basis, so there's no inventory, little overhead, no ripped books being returned, etc.

That model will not be going away, Kindle or not.

Cheap paperbacks have a life of 10 or 15 years, and then they they are more or less shot. How nice if trees weren't used in 90% of that market. If you are at the airport, you wouldn't have a choice of 500 books at the little store near your gate, but instead a hundred thousand titles *at* your gate.
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