The death of publishing has been greatly exaggerated.
Though traditional publishers are being threatened from all sides -- the rise of ebooks, competition from other media, the growing shadow of Amazon -- publishers have learned from the failures of the music industry, the futility of closing one's eyes and trying to deny an evolving marketplace. They have conformed to many aspects of digitization, hurrying to convert to required formats and bowing to imposed pricing structures, hoping to not miss the last boat provided by the new marketplace.
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