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Originally Posted by stonetools
And yet apparently the authors and publishers see such a connection. Guess they don't know their own businesses like you lot.
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I'm not really sure that such condescension really deserves a reply...but what the heck:
1) eBooks are a really, really, really new business and probably and was an almost negligible segment of the market until about the last 6 months, so it would be surprising if anyone had a good idea about how the business works best at this point.
2) The music industry, which is a few years ahead of ebooks in the electronic distribution marketplace, has just about run itself into bankruptcy. Even without speculating about why this has happened, this looks an indication that giant corporations with near limitless resources and power in their industry can jointly screw up by not "knowing" their own business.
3) Personally, I think this argument is moot. In way less than 10 years there won't be a single big publisher left (at least in the ebook marketplace) on the planet to force DRM on either the public or the authors.