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Old 02-10-2009, 11:48 AM   #81
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Originally Posted by dadioflex View Post
Sure, you or I might say it. Plenty of other people will tell you he is killing the publishing industry and by extension the ebook industry. There was some nasty SFWA in-fighting going on last year or the year before that Charles Stross, John Scalzi and Cory Doctorow all touched on. Some people in the SFWA equated giving away ebooks to stealing food from their children's mouths.
I do have sympathy for the SFWA guys. SF is by far the most popular genre on P2P of any kind. DRM is not the answer. I don't know what the answer is. I fear there might not be modern Toynbee's or Durants if a solution is not found.
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