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Originally Posted by Brian
Apparently, used books have publishers worried too, and they want a cut of used books sales as well as moratoriums on selling a title as used within a certain period of time after it is published. |
I don't often rail about the greed of media, but this is one thing that really irks me. The music industry made waves about used CD stores a few years ago but shut up pretty quickly.
In this context it makes the reluctance to embrace electronic distribution confusing, as it is far easier to turn electronic media into a pay-per-view scheme than traditional media.
Many years ago I read an interview in which a movie studio executive (and I can't remember where I read it, unfortunately) said that the dumbest thing the studio's ever did was allow people to own their content. This mentality pervades to this day.