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Originally Posted by kennyc
Can you not read?
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Here's what I read:
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Originally Posted by kennyc
New publishers and publishing mechanisms are already in place.
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This means the innovations you want have already occurred. Random House can't stop you from reading books coming out of the new publishers and mechanisms, just as you can't stop me from reading the supposedly non-innovative non-fiction Random House books I seem to (now that I am noticing publishers) latch onto fairly often.
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Because the transition is not complete and the TPH are still trying to block the new instead of get on board.
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Nothing like this is ever complete. There will always be at least a few paper books being manufactured. And, baring some science fiction-like global calamity, threads this will be created for centuries to come.
As for TPH, maybe here I indeed can't read. What is TPH?
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Copyright (and other laws) need to change to support the new business and environent.
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Probably I've been playing in threads like this for too long, and you have hit me on a cranky evening. I'm wondering whether there is any possible legislative compromise that wouldn't be widely branded as another SOPA.