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Originally Posted by Sabardeyn
They're going to become the cross-indexed, cross-selling, electrostatically illuminated manuscripts of out time. And there is not a darned thing we can do about it.
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Oh, can't we?
As long as there is text in them, it can be stripped out.
If it's too much work to strip the commercials from the e-book, then strip the e-book from the commercials and rebuild it. If there are people idiotic (dedicated) enough to OCR paper books and build e-books from scratch, there will be people who strip the text from such a book and create a clean pirated version.
It's what happens with movies all the time. A commercial movie has a bazillion warnings and a hundred trailers, and your bag of chips is empty when the movie finally starts. With a pirated version you just enter the DVD, hit play, and the movie starts.
If what you are saying comes to pass, then companies still don't understand.
- Clean, Complete and Correct Content (maybe I should start a CCCC-Course for those companies that don't get it. But I might give rise to anti-stuttering courses in the process...)
- No DRM, no fuss
- Easy to obtain
- Low price
It will sell like mad.