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Originally Posted by cstross
(I have heard one editor lamenting how, when trying to hook up with an ebook publisher, his house's lawyers had sent them draft legal contract boilerplate that included terms governing the return of stripped covers for credit -- with the word "e-book" slipped in to replace "paperback".)
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That's frustrating. Even though the World Wide Web has been around roughly a generation (give-or-take), that kind of thinking still persists.
Though, on the bright side, when the Singularity comes, folks like this publisher's legal department can distract the feral calculators and the grey goo so the rest of us can get away
I have a strong hunch that the only way this thinking is going to change is when the "old guard" running most of the publishing industry retires and a tech-savvy "new guard" takes over... Provided the old guard hasn't terminally infected the new guard with their toxic meme of a business model.