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Originally Posted by Blue Tyson
The author part of your Con - most authors have little choice in the matter, and the majority of them are super desperate to sell. There is a never ending ever-increasing supply of this lot.
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Perhaps so. But we certainly have an existence proof of popular authors jumping ship over smaller issues than reliability of their publisher. For example because they don't agree with the ebook policy.
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Originally Posted by Blue Tyson
All the major publishers and media conglomerates have horribly sullied reputations already, DRM, lawsuits, etc. Not to mention financial fun and games.
They are delusional if they think they don't. Unless you mean only with each other? Insular thinking like that wouldn't surprise.  See that Doctorow secret treaties article from today. |
So... given their existing contracts,
what are they supposed to do?
It's lots of fun to excoriate them as bad guys and idiots. It's much harder to make constructive proposals.
What's YOUR great idea? How will you cut the gordian knot?
Xenophon