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Mr Ploppy,
"People buy products. They don't care how the money they pay for those products is shared out."
Whilst I tend to agree with you on the whole, I am making a guess that people who read books tend to think about matters like this in more depth..
The ethical distribution of profits from food production is an example, where fair-trading is becoming more important to the end-user and the person whose labours should be rewarded.
However, I don't equate the profits of publishers with the struggling African producer of the cocoa bean.
The new model of electronic distribution could be the undoing of the large publishing houses. Is that good or bad? The jury's still out.
I tend to side with the idea of revenue streams without middle-men being preferable. Where the end-user and creator are less remote from each other and the arbiters of good taste don't stifle creativity on the altar of commercialism.
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