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Originally Posted by sabredog
Well said! This is precisely the way I see it as well.
The music/entertainment industry meanderings and failures should serve as a prime example of what not to do.
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What I've been reading though is that the heads of the publishing companies have been talking to the heads of the music/entertainment industry to find out what the failures were. In their view none of it was their fault, it was Apple's fault for controlling the pricing and dictating the pricing. The heads of the music industry aren't going to say it was their fault.
I was listening to a radio interview with Steve Knopper about a year ago where he was discussing his book "Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age". I was amazed at how many parallels there were between the things he was talking about and the publishing industry. He was talking about how he knew the heads of the recording industry and how intelligent and well respected they were and he couldn't understand how they could be so blind. The problem was that they were brilliant at the old way of doing things and the wrong people to lead the way to the digital future. I think it's the exact same thing with the publishing industry. It's too bad that the large publishing companies don't read their own books.
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
Can$ 18.80 for the e-book at Amazon
Can$ 7.89 for a new paperback copy