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Originally Posted by braver
Hellmark -- are you a publisher or do you have publishing interests? You're consistently falling on the publishers' side, which, I believe, is not the majority side here.
The majority side are the new consumers of ebooks. And as a group, we have a new interest in digital upgrade.
Sure it's inconvenient for the status quo. My analogy is with the human rights in the US. You'd have to desegregate a lot of schools and buses, and eliminate a lot of signs, retrain the police and civil servants. It is inconvenient indeed -- but necessary.
Amazon has exact and perfect way to immediately and for all time verify Joe Schmoe's purchase of a specific book by a specific publisher. Depending on the structure of digital rights, this MAY give Amazon a WAY to OFFER a discount to Joe as a way to reward and retain Joe as a customer.
Now add market forces into the mix, and you get -- inevitability.
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No, not a publisher, I just understand that companies are around to make a profit, and if they're not doing it, they will stop and change things till they are. That includes if they have to change markets entirely. Ebooks are currently a niche market, something that makes up something in the neighborhood of 5% book sales, on the biggest sellers. Publishers have been arguing against ebooks, and saying it isn't worthwhile. I'd rather them get in, build the market, and be able to afford to do stuff, rather than do something that only loses them money. We have to work to win over the publishers first. Hell, we can't even get some publishers to have ebooks sell near, or even at, paperbook prices. I've seen some want more for the ebook than the hardback. You want me to go to them and say "Hey, why don't you give me a copy of this book, because I bought it five years ago? Say, here's a buck for your troubles."
Where is the logic?