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Originally Posted by PKFFW
Change or not change I don't really care.
Why I bring it up is because I think it is very hypocritcal for people to be spouting off about how the "old ways" don't work........authors should move with the times man, publishers are big greedy corporate vampires draining every cent from customers, self-publishing is the way of the future, no barriers between creator and audience, adapt or die etc etc..............and then in the next breath use the "old way" of supply and demand in order to support their argument that digital media has zero value.
If the "old ways" don't work in the digital era then don't use the "old way" of supply and demand as the determining factor in establishing value.
Cheers,
PKFFW
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You are missing the point. Not "everything" has changed... humans still breathe air, energy is still equal to mass times the speed of light squared, and the laws of economics still hold. When talking about how the "old ways" don't work anymore, one refers to the ease with which digital works, as opposed to physical works, can be distributed and copied. It is
that which has changed, and it is that which makes some of the old ways not apply anymore. But we are still operating under the constraints of economics.