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Originally Posted by spooky69
While I'd like to see some of that in the future, I also can't blame the government for not putting resources behind a market that has just now come into its own.
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I think the only part of the e-book industry that's recently "come into its own" has been in dedicated e-book readers using e-ink. The rest of the industry has been functioning in pretty much the same way for the past 5 years previous, and still sells e-books the same way post-Sony/Kindle.
The only viable result of the Kindle and PRS readers, thus far, has been increased public awareness of e-books (through Amazon and Sony promotion of the e-ink readers). So far, they haven't made that significant a difference in e-book operations or sales. They haven't yet reconsolidated the market, or cut back on e-babel or DRM problems.
Based on that logic, if the Govt didn't have enough of a reason to support e-books before, then they still don't now. However, I maintain that the govt should have taken the e-book industry in-hand years ago, and applied the same kind of regulations for the public good that it has applied to things like occupational safety, food quality and traffic control.