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Originally Posted by John Bailey
Ever want to grab someone and bang their head into the wall until they understand?
The sad thing is I can see some idiots actually thinking that this is a good idea. Fragment the book sales market, so they can play one format off against the other, and lose readers who might otherwise have bought the books in a universal format.
The sooner the publishing industry reaches the iTunes moment and drops DRM and format exclusivity, the better. But statements like this make me think it will be a long long time before it happens.
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Ummm since when "iTunes moment" has achieved
anything especially as long as format goes?
FYI iTunes was never been anything more intended than a
quasi-monopoly distrib platform for Apple, nobody else.
Also iTunes
did not drop DRM until very recently and still charges extra, even if you already own the track -a typical cheap, Apple-like money-grabbing trick.
OT: I often wonder how on Earth Apple mananged to brainwash so many people to think they have invented so many thing when, in fact, they did not jack&^%$... it's beyond me.
The most revolutionary change in
format came with mp3, this German
Fraunhofer Institute-developed format.
Easy-to-download/share music, for free, arrived with
Napster.
Mobile music (aka MP3) players arrived after
Diamond Multimedia successfully defeated the (il)legal attack of the RIAA-mob in 1999, clearing the path for the flood of mobile music players (ironically Diamond's winning argument used the precedent of
Sony Corp of America vs Universal Studios 1984 - Sony, the RIAA member...
)
Anyway, my point is that
iTunes or Apple had nothing to do with formats (other than screwing up everything by introducing its own crap)
and even less with dropping DRM (plenty of other stores offered DRM-free music for years now, sometimes even for free.)
