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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
As in an EPUB that is only sideways images?
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Yes, sideways images of text pages, over and over and over.
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Is this new(?) wave much different than previous years?
The Digital Reader has been writing some stuff about this for a while:
And I definitely know I've been following stuff on the algorithmic pricing (where they sell "used copies" for hundreds and hundreds of dollars).
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Yes, AFAIK, this is very different from what we've seen previously.
(major snippages, cuz, it's Tex.)
Why not?
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See Google Play (apps) + Steam (video games).
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Anyway, I think this is really straying far from the original topic at hand... 
But KFX and all this JSON-server-fed-fixed-format nonsense... rotten, absolutely rotten.
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Yes, well, you think any and all paid software is evil, so...you just MIGHT have a bias there, don'tcha know?
What's Google play (apps) and Stream (video games) got to do with upload fees? I'm sorry, but if some scum-sucking dirtbag wants to steal someone else's work, and try to make $0.50 off of it, let's say, over the 60 days that they may get away with it, a $10 upload fee will kibosh that right quick.
Even an upload fee that's paid back, let's say, by royalties so that after XXX period of time, the publisher
hasn't paid it. It's a gatekeeping method, yes and for that reason, you'll have a cow, but I genuinely don't see a better way.
Sorry, but you know what? Publishing is now and
always has been an endeavor that costs
some money. More for some, less for others, but SOME money. "Democratizing" publishing so that any Tom Dick or Harriet can publish hasn't really resulting in millions of best-selling novels arriving full-blown and ready to rock, like Pegasus from the head of Medusa, now, has it?
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