[Madam Broshkina]

Originally Posted by KevinH

Hi,

Your argument is very flawed. If it were true, then there would be no successful musicians/groups making any money. Yet they still do and lots of it.

Originally Posted by KevinH

If any publisher actually pushes the "license" versus "ownership" issue, they will soon get a very large class-action lawsuit filed against them for deceptive marketing/advertising and or a price-gouging lawsuit brought for charging "ownership" prices for "licensed" goods to be followed by charges of cross-collusion and price fixings (agency-model anyone).

If they push the license versus ownership issue then I would be willing to pay $1.00 - $2.00 per ebook, and not the $9.99 - $20.99 I am being charged today.

Also, assuming piracy is equivalent to lost sales is nonsense and that lack of drm or ease of copying results in increased piracy. Pirates never have and never will pay for their ebooks/music/software and therefore can not be counted as lost sales at all. I do not pirate, and never would as I want my favorite authors to actually produce more works. What actually keeps me from spending more money is DRM and this "license" issue. I think there are many many people like me. If they push the license issue, they will then actually see true lost-sales.

I cannot see how you can compare musicians to authors. I would expect that musicians/groups make a lot of their money from concerts. The question:
"Do music artists make more money playing concerts or with CD sales?" was asked on Answers.com.


The Answer: "Bands certainly make more money from concerts. Most major label contracts only pay a small fraction of each CD, and there are many reductions taken from the artist's royalties. So unless your CD sells millions of units, you're not going to make much. For live performances, however, the artist keeps most of the money.
Basically this can be extended to the debate about pirating digital music: it's not going to kill the artist, it's only killing the record companies."

When was the last time you have seen John Grisham in concert?