Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfCrash
No, we are saying that you should pay to read the books that you want or borrow them from the library. The authors who wrote those books deserve to be paid for their efforts.
If the library does not have the e-book you want, check out the paper version.
|
[rant]
I agree completely that authors deserve to be paid for their efforts. And in the case of pbooks, publishers deserve to be paid for their efforts. But the world is changing, and publishers no longer have to edit, typeset, print, warehouse, ship, distribute, promote, etc. etc. an ebook. All they have to do is edit, format and promote it; formatting is largely automated and promotion is mostly handled by the online seller.
Yet the publishing houses expect to be paid as if the tasks were still difficult; so we have various schemes, the latest being agency pricing, designed to provide them with undeserved profits. The publishers aren’t stupid, they can see the handwriting on the wall, and they are desperate to preserve their cash cow. The end result is inevitable; sell your Bantam, Random House, and HarperCollins stock. It’s only a matter of how long they can hold out.
[/rant]