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One of the scary (for publishers) side notes to this topic is what happens to the business model if piracy gets even worse. If piracy is better accepted by the general public and there is no backlist, publishers (of any kind of media) have to change radically.
At that point, the publisher probably has to copy bamboo (or some similar model). Bamboo is very tasty. As a result, bamboo plants saturate the area by flowering all at once and then dying. This overloads the local eaters of bamboo, and then starves them to death, making it more likely that some of the bamboo reproduces. It works for coral spawn, too.
In a world where almost everyone pirates, a publisher would have to release the maximum amount of product into the maximum number of channels simultaneously at a high price in order to make any money. It wouldn't be pretty, no siree.
Regards,
Jack Tingle
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