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This is total after the fact, rationalizing BS, but I'm choosing to view myself as an agent of change. The publishing industry is completely wrong about how they're approaching electronic publishing, and they're on the fast track to extinction. I think we should all help them to get there by withdrawing our cash from industry and download from the darknet like there's no tomorrow.
As long as they charge close to the same price for an ebook as they do for paper (and I don't buy for a second the claims that the printing/distribution/warehousing costs associated with a physical product are a negligible portion of the costs of publishing), and as long as they wrap their product in DRM, then go get the content for free.
Eventually, they'll go under or change their business model. Authors will discover that the print publishers bring very little value to the table and they'll cut them out of the loop and the world will be a better place.
(BTW, I'm only partially joking)
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