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Theoretically though, I often wonder what Doctorow's position would be if tomorrow he woke up in a world where paper books were no longer produced. Would all his evangelising and support of 'free culture' melt in the face of his own economic realities? |
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It's questionable whether downloading itself is actually illegal. Even if it is, it is definitely not criminal. However, using that language does make for a more intimidating way of making your point. As far as your main point about the civil disobedience, I tend to agree. |
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To me, one of the main questions is -- if you're doing it to books you've paid for and it's only for personal use, then how would anyone actually know that you're doing it and why would they care. Whether or not it's technically legal/illegal may not matter. I honestly don't think you're ever going to see anybody brought to trial over it. Doing so would be kind of pointless.
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Well, I'm in a panel that Cory is presenting on that very topic and he says that he does not feel that the loss of revenue will be noticeable, since he has become quite popular by the whole marketing process of giving it away and that he is actually interested to see where it all goes.
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Japan is years if not a full decade ahead of the United States technologically, and while people might be surfing the web on their cell-phones on the subway instead of reading manga, I don't think their printing industry shows even the most preliminary sign of being on the way out. The publishing industry (albeit not necessarily individual publishers) in any country will be entirely safe from the threat of obsolescence until the day that eBook readers can display newspapers, magazines, textbooks, and other complex books (that cannot be made to reflow without a serious degradation of quality, for reasons to which there can be no solely technological/automated solutions) in the same quality as the paper editions. And even once that does happen... the impact will probably still take at least a decade or several decades to be fully realized in any given country/region (and may possibly fail to make headway in the third-world for decades more, where a book printed for $1 is expensive, but a device costing more than $20-$30 may be out of reach for people below middle-class for their whole lives). - Ahi |
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This is WorldCon. No taping officially. But I am going to try to digest it in the LIve from WorldCon Thread.
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... but manga are essentially comic books. Is the lessening popularity of comic books really a harbinger of the death of the publishing industry and paper books? And if it is, does the recent increase in North American interest in comic books and manga an indicator of just the opposite? Surely not. It should also be pointed out that Manga is easy to digitize... due to its inflexible formatting, people do not delude themselves into thinking that it may be ad-hoc reformatted to accommodate the short-comings of eBook reading devices. In other words, if you have a big enough screen, or you have artists use relatively uncomplicated and sequential (non-interacting) "boxes" (don't know the technical term), they can easily be the same quality on an eBook reading device as on printed paper. I agree that paper books will one day all but disappear... but I am not certain I will live to see that day. The most I expect in my lifetime is that eBook readers become broadly and widely used in the West (and probably not globally), but without the downright demise of either the publishing industry or paper books. - Ahi Last edited by ahi; 08-07-2009 at 11:27 AM. Reason: fixed mangled sentence |
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Yeah, Manga is easy to digitize. Generally all the same page size, almost never any multipage spreads, almost always black and white (except for covers).
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No OCR and thus no proofreading is required. Colour pages can be readily converted to grayscale. Page sizes can be enlarged or reduced in simple and automated ways. Multipage spreads can be automatically split (by software) into two pages without rendering their message incomprehensible. And then... Quote:
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Ahi, that last quote wasn't from me.
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