As an offshoot from a rather..heated tangent on another thread, this thread s being created to propose and promote practical publishing models for eBooks given current market and technological conditions.
So let's do that. Some ground rules:
1. We are working on the assumption that we are discussing selling books to people that wish to buy them. As such, accusation and/or labeling of anyone engaged in the discussion as a "pirate" is strictly forbidden and out of bounds.
Further, anyone engaging in such will be branded as a violator of "MrKai's Law" which is mobileread's version of "Godwin's Law" as it was dubbed by Nate the Great,
here. Massive heaping of shame upon the guilty is to be allowed and encouraged
2. Any discussion of Digital Rights Management is to be of a technical nature, not a political one. This includes slurs such as "Digital Restrictions Management" and "Freeloaders". Again, we are talking about buyers and sellers, and the participants are assumed to be producers/vendors customers.
3. This is not Sunday School, Philosophy 101, Plato or the Free Software Foundation. We aren't looking to discuss morality or "morality" or law or "law". If you are a lawyer...fine. But I mean
real lawyers. Please state where you are allowed to practice law so that the participants are aware of where these laws apply.
4. Publishers and authors are encouraged to participate. Assuming the above 3 points can be adhered to.
I fully expect this to be either a productive and educational discussion...or a completely dead one due to the limitations outlined above
