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Originally Posted by murraypaul
And how many people do you think now remember it, or would be influenced in their decision making by it?
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That's not a problem with Amazon, or DRM. That's a problem with "people are idiots," and if they're not idiots about Amazon or DRM, they'll be idiots about something else.
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Originally Posted by murraypaul
What is the readership of the NYT anyway?
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More than the readership here, or any other ebook forum. Or, probably,
all ebook forums.
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Originally Posted by murraypaul
I find it completely plausible that an average consumer wouldn't be aware of a NYT article, and even more so that they wouldn't remember the contents of an article from several years ago.
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It made mainstream news well beyond NYT. It was the "big corporations are evil" hysterical nonsense of the week.