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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The ebook business is doing fine without government meddling.
There is no aspect of the business that can be improved by dragging in idiot politicians (and certainly not the matters that concern the OP) but plenty of aspects they can mess up. Ergo, any government action will be a net negative. So, hands off.
Seriously, what is government going to do, force people who prefer print to stop buying pbooks? If ebooks are a good fit to people's needs, they'll adopt them on their own. If not, they'll stick to dead tree pulp. There is no social good being served there. Again, hands off.
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ha ! xD
that's interesting
Well to start with an example
In france and unlike lots of other countries in the world, where Audio CDs price is "free" to be set by the retailer, Audio CDs are the same as ebooks, that is : publishers set the price of Audio CDs
this means that the Audio CDs business in France is absolutely not competitive. retailers can't compete with each other... And when the market doesn't work out, instead of trying to see why it doesn't work, they blame piracy exclusively.
I am just thinking governments could throw this up & force publishers to stop this practice so the retailer has the choice to sell at the price they wanted.
Now this is just an example, I have no idea how doable it would be, nor what the result would be. Just something I came up with in the spur of the moment
And really I wasn't even thinking that when I first wrote about how "green" ebooks are compared to pbooks.