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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
no matter how hard you punch someone, you can't make them like you.
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qft
Whenever I see these publisher apologetics doing their thing, the PR person in me just... <facepalm>
Are there no voices of wisdom in this industry? No one who realizes the folly in setting themselves up as antagonistic to their customers?
Are the smart people in publishing just being ignored?
I don't know.
I do know this: As long as I see publishers continue doing such things as
- - Disabling TTS (by means of drm)
- - Disallowing even the most restrictive of lending features. Seriously - this isn't just a matter of, "DRM is needed to keep people from casually using facebook to spread to hundreds or thousands of people."
They also think a one-time only, 14 day, exclusive-use lending of a book in its lifetime is too much.
- - Blowing off the simplest of error-checking and inclusion of important images, like maps
- - Insulting us or our intelligence in confrontations
Well, I'm usually a pretty soft heart, but yeesh, I'm having a very hard time scraping up anything like trust or benevolence toward them.