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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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I read this a lot, but I don't get what the publishers were supposed to have learned from the music industry. That people will take things for free? That once they are used to getting it for free, they will want to pay little for it even if you make it super convenient to acquire? Ok, true enough, but what were they supposed to DO? Go gentle into that good night? Accept their inevitable decline and irrelevance? Beseech the Amazon God to have mercy on them?