Boy... look how far everyone's gone in just a day! Now then:
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Here's some to add:
- Ultimately, all information will be free.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Really, Steve, I couldn't disagree with you more.
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Just to be clear: I was adding these
commonly-voiced opinions to Neko's list. I didn't say they were
mine (and this one is not).
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
- E-books do not exist in a physical sense, and therefore cannot be "taken" from anybody.
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Also not mine.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
- E-books should be considered more similar to television shows than physical products. (This is my opinion)
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Yup... mine.
Carrying on:
I see a few people have started to consider the TV analogy, and time-shifting has been mentioned more than once. The TV industry, now well-aware of time-shifting, is working now to circumvent it... see those tiny ads that run on the bottom of the screen during the program?
Bingo.
E-books could sell ad revenue, like TV programs, but they would also have to deal with people trying to tune-out the ads. Quite possibly, ad banners (like web sites) could be displayed on the top of each chapter of a book... that's one example of getting ads in there. Or maybe they'd just be happy grouping the ads between the cover and Chapter 1. There are all kinds of options that could be tried to make an ad-revenue model work.
And if it meant that people could download e-books for free (or really, really cheap), they might not complaign about the ads too much anyway.