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Originally Posted by notimp
Boy, those publishers sure are NOT smart, arent they...
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It's more a case of short-sighted than lack of smarts. They see the immediate "threat" of piracy. They have a harder time foreseeing the longer term threat of ceding control to a company whose goals are almost guaranteed to evolve into something no longer in sync with the publishers' goals.
Book publishers are far from alone in falling into this trap (see music publishers and Apple/iTunes).