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I have no problem with a multiple store approach, the authors can sell from their websites, the Publishers can sell from their websites, but sell the books from the regular stores as well. Give me an incentive to buy from your website if you want my info, a lower price or a book without DRM or maybe some extra material but let me make that choice. Do not force me to use your store.
Harry, I agree people should be backing their stuff up. I would guess that most people are not. We see stories here on a regular basis where someones account got hacked and they lost all their books. They post here, have access to info on how to back up books, and still do not. What makes you think that the average person on the street is going to do so? Personally, I would prefer to have the books be available from places that provide more protection then less. More importantly, I think it is important for people to have that choice.
JKR removed that choice from people. Potter is huge right now and will probably remain strong for a long time to come. But will it be strong enough to justify the cost of maintaining the site and the servers that hold all the info? It is a risk that people are being forced to take. If other smaller authors start to do this, then life is going to get interesting and it could be detrimental to the e-book market. Why buy an e-reader when the sites you buy the books from cannot be trusted? People tend to be lazy and don't do things like back up their e-books. Why move to that technology when I can be so easily screwed over. I can only blame myself for losing a paperbook but why should I have to worry about the store closing and costing me my e-book?
The people here are not the norm. Our practices and what we find to be common sense is not embraced across the market. It will hurt the e-book market if these types of stores blow up in peoples faces. A long term problem but it is a precident (sp) that I am concerned about.
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