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Originally Posted by cfrizz
The publishers cannot afford to have this drag on for 2-3 years, the negative publicity would kill them.
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Maybe you are right, but I don't understand why. Ten seconds after getting past the title page of a book, nine times out of ten, I couldn't tell you who the publisher was. And I don't think I'm unusual there.
Now, people do know, when they buy an Apple product, that it was from Apple. So I'd think that, if negative publicity from being accused of lawbreaking is going to hurt anyone, it would be Apple. I'm not saying that Apple will be hurt, only that it would be particualarly safe for the publishers to drag this out for many years.
I guess the test of your thesis will be how well the big company that wasn't sued, Random House, does compared to the rest.
Is there anyone here who plans to boycott those sued while still patronizing Random House?
P.S. Also, how is having the case go on for 2-3 years dragging it out? This would be rapid compared to the experience of IBM and Microsoft.