But leaving them out does seem increasingly anomalous in the brave new world of electronic publishing.
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The road to electronic publishing is littered with abandoned attempts to avoid paper and ink.
Which has prompted a handful of firms to try and marry the economics of electronic publishing with the quality of printing.
No presses are required for purely electronic publishing, and over time, this new distribution system will have as-yet-unknown effects on the traditional publishing world.
After talking it over with his agent, who suggested electronic publishing might be the way to build a loyal readership, Ponzo decided to give it a try.
Simply throwing a piece of copy from the magazine onto the site no more constituted genuine electronic publishing than filming a stage play constituted a feature film, as some once thought.
And there is also a lingering prejudice against electronic-only publishing.
The entire 170-employee company was then sold to publishing giant Electronic Arts for an undisclosed sum in 2006.
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You can play traditional publishers off various forms of electronic and self-publishing and keep more of the total book spend.
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The social publishing startup launched a feature Wednesday that lets users zap reading material to their electronic reader or smartphone.
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