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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
@ HeavyB:
I can feel your pain on a number of issues. I would phone Random House & Penguin to complain about how prices and how *I* (& OK, at least 3 other people) feel about the price structure of e-text if I thought it would matter.
Sadly, the only reason iTunes was created was to offer a peace settlement to two warring--and both wrong--camps. I imagine that the RIAA offered content to Apple b/c 10% of 99 cents is better than nothing, their return on Napster & similar sites. iTunes is not some populist movement to free the data of the ears, it is a business solution to an incredibly huge threat.
There exists no such condition in the world of publishing. To be mean, everyone who buys a hard copy book to have, then the e-book at the same price, is hurting the cause. A Boycott only works if we really stop buying. Very few people are devoted enough to that cause to deprive themselves of the pleasure of reading. For that, you people who are stopping me from getting $2.99 ebooks are awesome, and I applaud your dedication to using your brains.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am one cheap slimy thing, and I do most of my book shopping at the local library. So for me, the argumet against DRM is linked to the fact that the current model for ebooks does not work in the lending library system. **However**, I can check out a DVD, or a brand new CD from said library. Most folks have the technology to steal this data. Some do, some don't. But for all their complaints, the MPAA & RIAA let themselves be robbed by not stopping this huge file-sharing system (i.e. the public library) from getting its files!
Of course, another problem is that digital content like a music CD or movie on DVD is quite different than the printed book. We have an "Apples & Oranges" thing there.
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Good points! I agree fully! May I add that buying an ebook is a totally blind decision. You have no other way than trusting the accompanying reviews, to make a decision on purchase. We have all been burned by so called critics! At least in a book store or a library you can lightly peruse at the contents. But at least if you know a particuliar author, it helps online...