Thread: "The book industry is gonna get Napstered..."
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Old 07-24-2009, 06:25 PM   #296
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Originally Posted by Abecedary View Post
Hear hear! I have a stash of ebooks that I downloaded 10 years or so ago when I was broke. I only ever read a handful of them (mostly due to getting tired of reading on a Palm IIIe or a laptop). When I got my Sony Reader, I pulled that stash out and started digging through it. After remembering how horrible the formatting/proofing was on most of those books (many that had been "proofed" and versioned 4 or 5 times previously), I quickly turned around and bought legitimate epubs and LRFs. Sure I can easily get darknet copies of many books, but I know what the quality is like on most of those (hell, many completely eliminate any and all uses of italics!), so I instead buy copies when I can.
But how does result in guaranteed middle-class level income for talentless hacks and their publishers, and rap-sensation superstar level income for actually talented writers and their coat-tail riding publishers?

That's the chief problem that needs to be solved, judging by this thread!

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