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Originally Posted by Horemheb
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Once again:
Cost1 = Author + Copyright owner + Publisher + Retailer
Cost2 = Author + Copyright owner + Publisher + Retailer + Apple
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This got me thinking:
This is a little bit of a side track but bear with me.
1) Authors and publishers want/need to make money on the books they sell.
2) Generally most people are happy to pay money for the books they read.
3) It’s a pain in the backside to have to add your details each time you want to buy something.
Problem how can these be integrated so that the publisher (including author) feels confident that their product and hard work will not be handed out like free newspapers.
The best solution they have come up with is DRM, and everybody knows how this is not in the best interests of the reader. And it really isn’t very satisfactory for the publisher either because in reality DRM is useless at preventing ‘unauthorized copying’
So there needs to be a method so that the honest consumer can easily buy an ebook, the publisher will get paid for most of their books people read.
I can see iTunes supplying that service as it is available on most if not all platforms.
Will some/many people copy books and give to their friends? Yes
Will many people pay for the books? Yes
Will the publisher make a profit? Yes
Could this be one way to end DRM? Yes
People who are strapped for cash won’t be buying a lot of books anyway, so if they read the books through ‘alternative channels’ the publisher isn’t really losing money. They can run steady campaigns encouraging people to pay for the books they have read whenever their finances improve. Nobody can argue that advertising doesn’t work, so here is something that can be good for everyone: publishers, customers, free loaders…
Of course apple would coincidently make shit loads of cash too.
If publisher don’t like iTunes, then perhaps they can set up their own bTunes and then cut out amazon, apple, adobe, sony…and sell them on iTunes as well for 30% more
Cost3 = Author + Copyright owner + Publisher