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Originally Posted by bzpilman
It's really a shame that the big companies can be so slow to accept market changes, and go out of their way for hindering and keeping old models instead of hopping into the frontline and providing renewed value to their customers, which is how their money-making should always be oriented.
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I'm pretty sure the reason the companies don't do as you suggest is, they know perfectly well that they will not survive it. Their owners, their shareholders, and their controlling interests will not willingly flush their business down the toilet... so they continue to force the old way of doing things as long as they can. Of course, they are in it for the money, so in a way, you can't blame them for wanting to continue to make money.
Most of the publishers of the future will be new companies, with little to lose and a lot to gain by embracing the new business models. The few old companies that will survive will be transformed significantly, mostly unrecognizable from their former selves. That's the way of business when a radical new shift in the business models take place, much like the change from a feudal to a democratic society. And we all have front row seats, and some of us are participants, to the storming of the castle.