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Originally Posted by Good Old Neon
I like how many in the pro-filing sharing camp continue to claim that sharing has very little to no impact on the bottom-line of publishers, etc, but then go on to say that if they don’t evolve, their bottom-lines will suffer as a result of file-sharing (though of course they continue to claim folks will be forced into doing so) – the sheer amount of cognitive dissonance that results from harboring such contradictions must be deafening.
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It's not that the publishers bottom line will be hit directly by illegal file-sharing and by people not paying for what they want. Although I'm sure that it does have some effect, just much much smaller than what the pr people say.
As newer and better business models evolve and take advantage of p2p file sharing and other net based technologies publishers (as they exist now) will become increasingly irrelevant. At least they will if they don't also change and evolve. If they cling to the past, as some seem to be doing, rather than adapting and changing then people will simply spend their money elsewhere. And this is how they will lose out.
It's why I've recently started buying Baen books rather than going to the trouble of removing drm and reformatting for my PRS-505.
That's how I see things anyway. Although this kind of change will more than likely take many many years to come about.