From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2003-02-01T10:17:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Books -- A Question


> Read the full article.  It's not the publishers that are getting the
> profit, it's the middlemen.

Hmmm ... from the article, it sounds like publishers don't have much business 
sense.

What I don't understand, still, is that if it's the large bookstore chains 
that are creating the overpricing, why is it that if I go to a smaller 
bookshop I still see the same price tags?  You'd think they would need to 
avoid adding the same level of margin, in order to compete with the larger 
stores.  Maybe that implies that most of the margin is being added by the 
wholesalers.

Oh well.  As I say, they don't get my money these days.  About the only thing 
I would spend it on would be an updated edition of PR or some new Ruby 
titles, if they can ever make it out, given the publishing indusftry's 
apparent malaise.