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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I wish more of the "ebooks are disrupting the publishing industry!!!" articles would acknowledge that "ebooks/no ebooks" was never a choice; it was "authorized ebooks/bootleg ebooks" ... and publishers let the second option get firmly established before considering the might want to participate in the new industry.
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Heh. Something similar happened when "Fake Books" came along in the music industry. Basically, these were huge collections of songs, based on official sheet music, but written using a sparse notation instead of being written out fully. A fake book song is not really read; it's interpreted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_book
Still, fake books started out as illegal derivative works.
It took decades for the sheet music publishers to realize that it would be better to just produce this type of sheet music themselves (as people clearly wanted it), than to try and stop the creation and spread of it.