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Originally Posted by Assassin
All of this intelligent nonsense is about to make me throw up.
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I agree with your sentiments. Except for the part about any of it being even slightly intelligent.
What I don't get is why so many people start with the presumption that the current system is broken--or even in the process of breaking. It's not. Most readers are not up in arms about the prices of ebooks. The concept of copyright is not under general attack. The vast majority of readers are perfectly fine with the way things are working (if they even bother to have an opinion). Ebooks are selling, regardless of the price tag that's put on them. Selling like hotcakes and gathering steam, in fact. There's just a tiny, vocal, online minority who are trying to convince the majority that the sky is falling. I assure you it's not. There will be tweaks and there will be concessions (and there should be), but what there won't be, is wholesale change. We're not capable.
I'm in favor of copyright reform. I'd like to see ebook prices come down. But acting like IP Zeigeist is some concrete, inevitable event that's just over the horizon is foolishness. The only thing on the horizon is stalemate... status quo with a new twist. And if that environment keeps my favorite authors in a state of mind conducive to creating works that I get vast amounts of pleasure out of (far more than I'm being charged for, in fact), then I'm more than OK with that.
A future where everyone has a right to do anything they want with anyone else's work, anytime they want is a pipe-dream--pipe-nightmare if you ask me.