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Originally Posted by stonetools
I'm pointing out that going DRM free wouldn't be a magic bullet for publishers. I guess my view is like Scalzi's:
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Amazon does some stuff I like. The BPHs produce the kind and quality of books that I like ( I like quality nonfiction and biography and I don't see anything like that coming out of a Smashwords and Baen type model). I like Apple too and think that there should be a space for high end, enhanced ebooks which is frankly the future of ebooks.
Frankly I would have preferred the current situation play out rather than the race-to-the bottom model which is what inevitable with Amazon running things.Make no mistake, thanks to the DOJ, Amazon WILL be running things for at least the next 2 years. |
Scalzi's quote is just Mom and Apple Pie pablum. It's not news to anyone sensible. If he thinks that the end of agency pricing (i.e. price fixing to protect the incomes of publishers who want to remain firmly wedded to the 1950s) will mean the "end of literature as we know it" then I suppose he's entitled to express that opinion. If he chooses to ignore the fact that there were centuries of "quality nonfiction and biography" before the BPH came into existence, then I'm entitled to give that opinion the significance I think it deserves.