All book publishers are ancient relics entrenched in business practices more than 100 years old. They used to serve a purpose when printing and book distribution was a serious undertaking. Today they're little more than entrenched middle men wielding lobbyists and lawyers and anti-competitive business practices to keep their undeserved share of the pie.
I know right?!?! I'm so tired of these mom-and-pop companies like Uber and Amazon getting hassled by all these book-store and multi-thousand dollar local cab company cartels!
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?