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Originally Posted by taosaur
Well, now we're wandering onto familiar ground the OP asked us to avoid, but if the executives and board of directors respond to the market in such a way that consumers turn to piracy en masse, then the poor slob's lost job is no more nor less than the corrective influence of black markets upon an intractable industry.
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In an ebook world, would a mailroom slob keep their job anyway? Publishers don't even seem to employ proof readers for ebooks, so it's unlikely they would keep all their staff from the analogue world, even if they did manage to entice readers back from the indies.