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Originally Posted by stumped
partly because the quality of pirate book scans is generally dire, whereas the quality of pirated movies and TV shows is often very good ?
also, i could be wrong, but I don't think best selling book releases suffer from the geo stupidity of " you can't get it legally in your country for another 6 months"
e.g. Disney are apparently to dumb to realize that by the time they actually launch disney+ in europe , millions of star wars fans will already have downloaded millions of copies of Maladorian/baby yoga,and wont then bother to pay for the channel
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1- eBook piracy has long moved past scan&ocr. Just as video piracy has moved past DVD/BD ripping. For video they rip the rental streams on day one.
2- Print books suffer something bigger than georestrictions: the three month launch window, with it's sell or return bar. And also lack of support for anything but the pre-annointed "best sellers" and legacy big name authors. Video streaming gets a lot of post-theater revenue from rentals, disk releases, and streaming due to word of mouth. A movie might underperform in theaters but rake in decent profits in the secondary markets. Books are either early sellers or they get moved into the "two copies in a shelf somewhere", "special order" or simply relegated to online. Both businesses are blockbuster driven but video has a big secondary market and books a tiny one.
3- Disney+ didn't delay their international launches out of strategy but out of necessity. In the US, they own BAMTECH, one of the premiere video streaming backend companies, which they bought from MLB in 2017.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybr.../#78a745d94a5d
They also own Hulu so their US streaming infrastructure is huge.
Outside the US...not as big.
Nonetheless, they beta tested Disney+ in the Netherlands before the US.
https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/fi...e-netherlands/
They are opening globally as fast as they can build up the backend in each region. It just isn't easy. The required bandwidth and datacenter capacity is enormous. eBooks are small downloads so serving the entire world from one datacenter only requires licensing rights. Video, however, needs dozens of data centers. Check this for how Netflix operates:
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/o...-live-the-cdn/
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Netflix content is handled on the company’s own equipment, installed within ISPs’ sites.
Since Netflix spends most of its time serving up the same shows to lots of people, these are cached close to the customers, where they can be served quickly and reliably.
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The files are stored on AWS servers, but the actual work of serving the streams is handled by region.
Not simple.
So newcomers like Disney+, HBOMAX, and PEACOCK can't launch globally unless they delay the markets where they're ready until the last market is ready. And that is strategically unwise, since they're already late, and cost them money and customers.
People properly castigated NOOK for not going global when they could but video is different. And way more expensive so making money as soon as possible is a must.