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Originally Posted by jgaiser
The Author's Guild has always come across as an arm of the big publishers. They backed, through their President, Scott Turow, ( at least verbally) the publishers price fixing, claims, again through Scott Turow, that Amazon is destroying physical bookstores and continues to whine about Google. They should really put Scott on the payroll. |
But if Amazon didn't have the books available as ebooks many people who don't live near a bookstore would be denied access to a good part of the world's literature wouldn't they? And wouldn't that be discriminatory? i.e. Sorry you don't live in the right place for you to have access to a bookstore so you can't buy a copy of (insert book title). Granted not everyone even now has access to the internet for one reason or another, but many who had no access to books now do because of things like wireless internet and 3G. And what of the old books that google has saved digitally that aren't in copyright any longer? Are we supposed to let them all vanish because a publisher (who wasn't even born when the book was written) wants to keep it a strictly physical book and not an ebook?