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Originally Posted by auspex
LOL. It's hard to understand how most book publishers haven't learned any lessons from the experience of the music industry's mishandling of new media at least a decade ago.
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Reading this, it sounds like the biggest music industry problem is that they lost control of pricing:
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/perm...ry-99-problems
However, I guess that's not what you mean.
Also, you don't want to allow concentration of your retail channel by one dominant retailer, whether it be Apple or Amazon.
However, I guess that's not what you mean.
One lesson is that you shouldn't cater to a youth market, since younger people have, on average and with many exceptions, fewer qualms about piracy.
However, I guess that's not what you mean.
Question: How many more years of publishers remaining profitable, while readers have lots of low-prices indie options, will it take to realize that maybe those English-major publishing executives aren't totally incompetent, or harmful to literature?
P.S. This isn't to say that I judge publishers by their profitability. I judge them by whether I like to read what they publish.