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that's a good point. O'Reilly says in his article that "The simplest way to get customers to stop trading illicit digital copies of music and movies is to give those customers a legitimate alternative, at a fair price." a few publishers are smart enough to see this (other than O'Reilly, baen is the obvious example), and they are doing very well. O'Reilly also says :
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how long do you think it will be before we begin to see more of this in the publishing industry ? |
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03-29-2009, 07:33 PM | #17 |
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Who would buy a car, lawn mower, computer, etc. if they knew that the manufacturer could arbitrarily decide to make them no longer work and the buyer had no legal recourse. We would be fools to do so but that's what the DRM community wants to do with books. Right now ebooks but eventually all books - outside of museums - will be ebooks.
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03-29-2009, 07:33 PM | #18 | |
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I'd expect it first with indie publishers, small press and the like, because the people in these companies are usually more technically and culturally savvy. The big players are so entrenched in corporate hierarchy that its going to take them a lot longer, if ever, to see the light. They'll be pushed, rather than jump into the digital world, but by that point their whole business will be seen as quaint by a lot of people. Actually I believe the entertainment corporations will die out in the face of more nimble, cost-effective small press publishers. You can't compete with free, but you will be able, for a short time at least, be able to compete with credibility. Small press publishers will have this credibility where the big companies can never achieve it. At least that's the way I see it panning out. |
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03-29-2009, 07:46 PM | #19 |
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i think when you mention credibility you touch on a key factor : by using drm and other systems which lock consumers into a specific business model or out of their legitimately purchased content big corporations have lost a lot of the goodwill of the precise groups they need to survive : their customers (thus the lack of guilt for illicit copying displayed by so many). on the other hand, look at the respect and appreciation people unanimously express for baen ; baen's customers want them to succeed and therefore support them in whatever way they can. even *i* feel invested in their success, although i'm not really a science fiction reader, because i appreciate their business model and wish more publishers would adopt it.
actually i think that if the corporations are replaced by a multitude of smaller presses who are willing to listen to what their customers want everyone will end up winning. fictionwise is also a small company but they make a lot of efforts to maintain good customer relations, and people appreciate and respect that. granted they are not a publisher, and they've also just been bought by barnes and noble who is clearly not small in any way, but if they manage to preserve this philosophy they'll be well-placed to come out on top in years to come. |
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Copyright has also changed immensely from it's initial intent, where you could share works with others, but only a certain person could print the work. Copyright has now evolved to the extent where even SHARING a work is penalised. They lock the book you buy with DRM into your kindle, you can't share it. Corporations and lobbyists are constantly seeking extensions to copyright so it affects even more areas/technologies and our daily lives. I read part of the paper and I think it is fairly well thought out and something that copyright holders should read. Corporations sole intent is to increase their profit, but the way they are approaching the issue they are jeopardizing that goal (treating customers like criminals, limiting technologies). When it is easier to use the pirated material rather than the purchased DRM material, you know there is something fundamentally wrong. |
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It was originally devised in the 17th century to prevent printers from printing a book without the author's permission. Basically a consequence of the invention of the printing press.
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Progressive Taxation is Piracy!
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I personally think that piracy could be a good driving force. Look at MP3. As more and more people used the internet to share those music files, more and more shops started to pop up and more and more numbers started to sell individually (compared to buying a whole CD full). MP3 players came around and now it's hard to find anybody without a device that can play MP3 files. At some point, the amount of legally available content should overshadow the amount of illegally available content. And while piracy will never disappear, it should become less. |
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