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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
In this case, we as a people are faced with losing literature... not completely, of course, but we are faced with the shutting-out of independent authors, the higher costs of mainstream published books, continued format and platform disconnections, and a continuing narrowing of choices. A media run by a couple of publishers, Amazon and Disney.
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People said the same about home taping killing music in the 70s, and home videos killing films in the 80s. The internet is just the latest monster threatening to topple society as we know it.
With music, I don't think we've ever had such an explosion of new music since the late 70s cassette culture, where bands would give their music away for free in return for a blank cassette and return postage.
It's the same with books. There's more books being written now than there ever has been before, and that's entirely due to ebook readers — a device that would never have existed if it wasn't for the early pioneers of ebook piracy. (Same goes for mp3 players).