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xg4bx · 10-08-2011, 09:43 PM

i think myspace and youtube brought the price of music down more than anything. here you had talented bands giving away their music or selling it at a low cost and trying to build an audience. it was a revolution in music and people were no longer held hostage by what radio saw fit to play or sony saw fit to publish.

competition lowered the prices because the entertainment/publishing monopoly had its back broken by people who loved their art, not those simply in it for a paycheck. people finally had a choice.

the same thing will happen with books eventually. i've had my kindle for months, i have yet to purchase or read an "agency" book on it. i'm getting incredible fiction thats knocking my socks off for $5 and under, i don't need to be held hostage to what publishers think i should read nor their pricing structure. there isn't an author on earth i enjoy enough to pay $15 for an ebook.

mainstream consumers just need to break out of the low price=crap mindset.

10-08-2011, 09:43 PM	#16
xg4bx Are you gonna eat that? Posts: 1,633 Karma: 23215128 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Phillipsburg, NJ Device: Kindle 3, Nook STG	i think myspace and youtube brought the price of music down more than anything. here you had talented bands giving away their music or selling it at a low cost and trying to build an audience. it was a revolution in music and people were no longer held hostage by what radio saw fit to play or sony saw fit to publish. competition lowered the prices because the entertainment/publishing monopoly had its back broken by people who loved their art, not those simply in it for a paycheck. people finally had a choice. the same thing will happen with books eventually. i've had my kindle for months, i have yet to purchase or read an "agency" book on it. i'm getting incredible fiction thats knocking my socks off for $5 and under, i don't need to be held hostage to what publishers think i should read nor their pricing structure. there isn't an author on earth i enjoy enough to pay $15 for an ebook. mainstream consumers just need to break out of the low price=crap mindset. Last edited by xg4bx; 10-08-2011 at 09:45 PM.