It's a pity these desperate companies never seem to get desperate-
enough to think any differently about ecommerce. The reason they
aren't making money is almost certainly that they are simply unable
to sufficiently-automate the chain between getting-paid & delivery.
I doubt they'd believe e-gold can solve this problem for them today,
but it could.
...
D I T H E R A T I
see the digerati dither, daily
>
> BOOK VALUE
>
> "The market for e-books has simply not developed
> the way we hoped, and given the overall economic
> climate, we can't jeopardize our thriving print
> business by carrying a money-losing operation
> indefinitely into the future."
>
> Larry Kirshbaum, chairman of Time Warner Trade
> Publishing, on closing iPublish.com, a venture
> that redefined publishing as we know it only
> by being unprofitable, News.com, 4 December 2001
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8069120.html
(see also http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7829133.html
for the Random-House version of the same, sad story).
JMR
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>Ditherati appears daily on weekdays. An archive is
>online at http://www.ditherati.com/archive/
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