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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Their way of looking at it is why should they adapt to market forces when they can go against the market and use the government as their private enforcer?
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I agree and loved Napster as much as the rest, but at the end of the day, writers are not going to get book deals from publishers if publishers can't make money off the books they sell.
It would be sad to see profits get stripped to the point where advertising starts slipping into the eBook/eReader experience - perhaps even product placement in the context of a story like the do in movies will evolve.
I know money isn't the only motivating factor for writers, but the publishers who distribute this content and make it readily available in high quality formats certainly have one thing in mind and that's bottom line profits.
I agree that something has to give when it comes to purchasing and then sharing books, but then again, if book clubs that used to purchase a copy of a publication for each member of the group now just download a single file and pass it to each member's Kindle or Tablet, then the publishers are going to cry "foul" and will likely take measures to try and curb that behavior.