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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Well, that would be my opinion on what he's saying -- but if I'm going to engage in meta-discussion about the purpose of the thread, I have to be more generous in my description. 
Noted.
Destruction of culture was ancillary to "owning the physical act of publishing".  |
It's hard to understand exactly what his positions are. My interpretation is that the (false) premise of Amazon owning the physical act of publishing is what gives Amazon the power to destroy culture, whilst the destruction itself is caused by Amazon's business models treating books as fungible commodities rather than sacred cultural icons. That old chestnut. Making publishing and distribution of ebooks easy and affordable for everyone "cheapens" the book. Destroys, as I think he described it, those structures built up over time. Minor point really. What I would like him to do, and I am not holding my breath, is to properly engage in a debate rather than simple preaching and repetition.