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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Pretty much. Publishers have been trying to change how people buy books for
decades. Tactics that publishers have used in the past include: selling workbooks
to schools. Publishers love these because it's one per student and they cannot be
reused. A rather popular theme at the university level are books that contain
online assessment. Once again, it's one per student and they cannot be reused.
In the case of fiction, publishers couldn't really do much about it until ebooks
arrived but now that they have arrived their dreams are full of dollar signs.
Of course, they are also trying to change attitudes as well as buying habits.
People would have died laughing if you told them that they couldn't resell a book 10
years ago because you owned a book. All of a sudden, people are claiming that it is
unethical to resell or lend books because authors don't get re-compensated. Uh,
authors were never compensated per reader. They were compensated per copy. That's
because they owned the *copy*rights while the reader/library owned the actual copy.
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I am continually amazed at how many people believe in the pay-per-read scam. Karma inbound...