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sigmax · 10-13-2009, 03:48 PM

my two cents, from a third world country:

As we all know, usually the media creator is on one side (insert here music or book) earning a very small fraction of the cake, then you got the "middle layer" which charges and bites obscene amounts of money, and on the other side of the ecuation you got the consumer, which usually paid for the whole party.

The "middle layer", in other times, could hide behind the "distribution and promotion costs".

Both sides of the equation where successfully isolated by the "distribution / promotion" wall.

Internet changed it. Paradigm shift. Creator: meet the consumers tet a tet.

I wouldn´t mind paying 4 or 5 dollars for a book. I would be specially happy to pay it directly into the writer´s pocket.

But paying ALMOST THE SAME as a printed book, is NOT ok.

Internet, computers, piracy. Inescapable, until the paradigm shift is complete and the profit moguls that "represent" "publish" and "distribute" realign on the new reality: their niche / opportunity is kind of dead / depleted. Time to earn less / find another job.

Regards and sorry for my English,

Enrique.

10-13-2009, 03:48 PM	#19
sigmax Connoisseur Posts: 53 Karma: 92 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Uruguay Device: SONY PRS-300	my two cents, from a third world country: As we all know, usually the media creator is on one side (insert here music or book) earning a very small fraction of the cake, then you got the "middle layer" which charges and bites obscene amounts of money, and on the other side of the ecuation you got the consumer, which usually paid for the whole party. The "middle layer", in other times, could hide behind the "distribution and promotion costs". Both sides of the equation where successfully isolated by the "distribution / promotion" wall. Internet changed it. Paradigm shift. Creator: meet the consumers tet a tet. I wouldn´t mind paying 4 or 5 dollars for a book. I would be specially happy to pay it directly into the writer´s pocket. But paying ALMOST THE SAME as a printed book, is NOT ok. Internet, computers, piracy. Inescapable, until the paradigm shift is complete and the profit moguls that "represent" "publish" and "distribute" realign on the new reality: their niche / opportunity is kind of dead / depleted. Time to earn less / find another job. Regards and sorry for my English, Enrique. Last edited by sigmax; 10-13-2009 at 04:02 PM. Reason: better use of english :)