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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
People keep saying this, but it's not true. E-book publishers may have made their own mistakes but they have *not* made the mistakes that music publishers made.
The mistake music publishers made was that they *did not provide a convenient, legal way to buy digital music*. Not that they charged too much money, or set monopoly prices.
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Music publisher
did provide a legal and convenient way to buy
digital music. They sold it on CD's, which happen to carry unencrypted digitalized audio signal. Everybody could rip it into mp3, all it took was a computer and 20 minutes of one's time. Unavailability of mp3 format was not an issue.
They did charge too much money, and they tried to set monopoly prices.