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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I don't think that would work. You would need to either base it on the UK library model, where writers get a few pence each time their book is downloaded (through taxation), or have them funded through adverts inserted into the book (and product placement, etc). Or just price them at second hand paperback levels and forget about the people who were never going to buy it anyway. Second hand paperback buyers are a vast untapped (by publishers) market that is never going to pay new hardback prices for their reading no matter how much publishers stamp their feet and cry about stealing cars.
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Well if the government wants to get into the publishing game, I'd be all for that. As long as anyone is able to publish and everyone can act as a censor of the garbage.
What I am saying though, is that it is going to have to work. The publishing industry has historically been propped up by the public's inability to copy books. Now that everyone can function as their own library and bookstore if they desire...
The internet was designed to share information. We can realize the internet's potential, or toss the old net out and build a new one designed around control of information. Which one do you prefer?
