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Originally Posted by rlynnt
I'm surprised there's no mention of copyright there. I thought that was the major hangup for this issue more than anything else. Have they solved that when I wasn't looking? I know that there are a great many more works available now than there have ever been, but there are still some best selling authors who refuse to make their work available electronically.
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I think he did -- kinda-sorta -- touch on copyright in a rather oblique way when he mentioned self-publishing.
Yes a lot of established writers are very hostile to e-books, but a lot of new authors (for whom obscurity is a much greater problem than copyright violations are likely to ever be) are simply deciding that they'd rather get published and out there to begin with, than worry about how some folks will take copies of their work without paying for them.
The best-selling authors of tomorrow are obscure ones today, JK Rowling won't always be the author of the next book we all have to read (didn't she say she was done anyway?).
I think that copyright will change no matter what, even if it's simply a matter of creative commons releases becoming so ... common (
) that the whole question becomes largely moot.