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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
I think they should concentrate on encouraging more people to read for enjoyment, rather than anti-piracy measures that end up frustrating paying customers.
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Ya know what? That's the absolute #1 thing they should do, but because the bean counters are in charge, it's the absolute
LAST thing they will do. To you and I, and probably a lot of others, it's simple common sense. To the big houses, who lack any semblance of common sense, this is ludicrous. Why encourage them to read more when you can simply milk to death the fewer and fewer readers who are left. Or at least that's their mentality.
And of course, this all falls back on the "$50 glass of lemonade" mentality. They're out to cure the symptoms, rather than the disease, and as we've seen with every other company that's done that, it ultimately backfires. But they don't even get that either. Their greatest plans could blow up massively in their face, and they'll still blame everyone else to their final dying breath.
Another fine example of why I went small house press. At least the little guys get it. Well, most of them anyways.