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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I've made my proposals, namely, adoption of the sponsor/patron methods common to broadcast television (commercials) and websites (ad banners). Check back in this very thread (to coin a phrase I heard somewhere) for details.
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I'd be more in favor of blanket fees or a library model, which you can also find somewhere in this meandering thread. I don't think ads will work, I think people will strip them. But I don't know - I don't think anyone does. We should try all these things, though. Who knows?
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
What I hear are (mostly anecdotal) reports about most indies trying to break even selling T-shirts, instead of profiting on their actual music. That doesn't sound very good to me: That makes their real craft, the music, a free advertisement for silly shirts
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Well, I don't know about you, but I go to gigs for the music, and I might buy the shirt for the memories. But I'm weird.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
But back to e-books, and now it's your turn: If, as you indicate, piracy is rampant, and the system is "broken," Why is this situation good?
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Because people have to realise a system is broken before they can move to fix it. Or if they can't, to chuck it and reinvent it. And I don't think piracy is especially rampant as ebooks are still very much a niche market, and book readers doubly so. What I do think is that the internet has made what piracy there is very visible, and to people not adjusted to global thinking, staggering.
How many hundred bittorrent seeds? (on how many billions of people?)
What I fear is that potential publishers will go down the same road that has been traveled by the movie and music industry before them, and look where that has gotten them - hollow victories on a few random individuals and a lot of bad publicity, trying to lock in content (content which by its very nature defies lock-in).