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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Cory's experiments worked out well only because e-readers are a tiny slice of the pie. When the day comes that e-readers are a majority slice I think this approach will face-plant.
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Oh noes, in 20 years (and I'm being really optimistic about the rate of adoption on ebooks here) we're going to have to find ANOTHER new business model! Woe is us! Yes, business models change over time. What worked yesterday does not work today. What works today will not work tomorrow. Ask the music industry.
His point may be a retread, but it remains valid:
The problem of most writers (nay, artists), ebook-savvy or not, is not piracy. It is obscurity.
Harry's argument is
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Mr. Doctorow, though, is using eBooks as an advertising vehicle for selling paper books. If people stop buying paper books, that won't work any more.
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I would partially agree, but what he has actually done is use a certain business model to generate (positive) attention, which IN TURN has generated sales.