[PKFFW]

Originally Posted by anappo

The industry just slapped geo-restrictions on Fictionwise. The shiny new B&N e-book shop has US-only on everything I checked. And everything I saw there had DRM on it.

Until the industry actually gets somewhere, I buy my books DRM free.

Ok, maybe I should have been more clear and I apologise for not being.

Many authors are moving in the direction of DRM free, region free, multiple format, yadda yadda yadda. On top of that, some content providers are moving that way too.

And good for you for buying your books DRM free. I applaud that.

What I don't applaud is using all the "I don't like DRM, too high price, yadda yadda yadda" as a justification for obtaining the content for free.

Originally Posted by anappo

Don't think this is what they are disagreeing with. Why would anyone thinking content (not copies!) should be free actually write on this forum? If free content was what we wanted - good for us - we have that already. There would be no further reason to debate on this topic. Those who do debate, obviously want something that differs from the current state. The desirable difference should also include ways for authors to make decent money with their creations. Is anyone here actually holding position contrary to this?

Ok seriously can we stop the semantics game of "copies" versus "content".

So all the "new digital era means everything should be free" people don't want the "content" for free they just want a copy of the digital file for free!!

So what do you want that "copy" for if not for the content it contains? Would you be happy with a file of the same size with all the 0's and 1's scrambled? I mean if you don't think the content of the file should be free only the copy of the file it shouldn't really matter to you right?

Originally Posted by anappo

As I have said several times before - but it still doesnt seem to register - today we already have companies who are doing this - selling non-crippled e-books and paying authors for their work. This "future" is already here. In case of Baen, it has been here for 10 years.

If this "future" will not be here 10 years from now, I will piss on the grave of the publishing industry, amazon and the likes, for "educating" the young and impressionable gen-Y crowd to the point they will never ever buy a book again in their life.

Yes, absolutely this business model works. NOW. Will it work in the future? Only so long as people admit that digital media(or the content it provides or whatever and however else you want to semantically put it) has value. If we keep going down the road of "I should be allowed to obtain a copy of the work for free" then this business model will no longer work because nobody will want to pay anything for their "copy".

Cheers,
PKFFW