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(Shrugs) I'll buy from Amazon, it is easier that way. Hopefully TOR allows DRM free books to be sold at the various bookstores.
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I think that Stross and the anti DRM crowd have a rosy tinged view of the future, whereby if you eliminate DRM, somehow a healthy, competive and diverse marketplace will naturally bloom and the small retailers will somehow be able to compete against Amazon and the big retailers absent DRM lock-in. Bollocks, in my view, but there it is. |
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Hopefully Tor will set it up so you can "link" your Kindle email to your Tor.com account and any purchases can then be automatically sent to your Amazon account. |
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(But what will kill Amazon's dominance, if anything does, is that consumers just don't like buying from them as much as they do other vendors. And while they do dominate the market, it's hardly a monopoly, and never really was.) |
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Despite much Baen (and Fictionwise ) love on MR, I doubt either had even one per cent of the Ebook market, combined. |
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Lois McMaster Bujold's stuff is there in Amazon for Kindle, including pre-orders for her next Vorkosiverse book. Looks like they're in Barnes & Noble's nook store, too. So not, they're apparently not exclusive to Baen.
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Here is a thoughtful comment about Baen from the Idealog site:
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LINK I think that the Tor.com store may well begin by offering their books everywhere, but economic logic is going to in the end dictate exclusivity -for at least ebooks. Again, I may be wrong about this but what exactly else can they offer that other retailers can't match? Another model may be Pottermore- Amazon refers you but the sale happens at the Pottermore site. Again, though Pottermore had exclusivity -as to not only books, but other content . |
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How time changes things. This is exactly what I was hoping for in 2008 when they launched the Tor.com site. Now I don't even care.
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Buried in the announcement abouthow wonderful DRM free is going to be is this little nugget: Quote:
His answer to the threat of filesharing is not to pretend that it will somehow disappear when DRM goes away , but this: Quote:
IOW, drop DRM: hire lawyers. Dropping DRM may be a good thing: but it will not be a money saver ( lawyers ain't cheap). And that will be show up in the price of the book. Ain't reality just grand? Last edited by stonetools; 06-05-2012 at 01:46 PM. |
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The reality is that Baen is not going to find a customer in me. I know about Baen. I have been to their website. I find it a pain in the butt and not worth the extra effort. If they had their books at Amazon, I might buy some of their books. But they don't so I don't bother looking.
I have a feeling that I am closer to the majority than the minority on this type of thing. I want things easy. That means make the books available were I shop. I get that some folks think that they are better off with a more closed model, personally I think all that they are saying is that they do not want my business. |
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However, on the current topic... I fully expect Tor's DRM-free store to fail. And then I expect it's failure to be trotted out as evidence that publishers responded to consumer cries for DRM-free books and then those same consumers wouldn't put their money where their mouth was. |
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