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Originally Posted by ahi
I also believe that the public at large is also affected by the fare tendered by said corporations. A vicious cycle, if you will.
- Ahi
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Of course you are right. But why is that so? Because most people prefer that fare to well written books. The majority of people never will be intellectuals, so the books that tender to them will do well -- same on TV. Look at German TV. You have the subsidized government programs, which have exceeding low ratings when they feed people the "higher quality" programming and the high ratings for private stations and the "lower quality" programming of the publicly owned stations. That is just democracy at work. You sell people what people want.
And Itunes has shown that people are willing to pay for content. Clean up the DRM and regional restrictions mess and give us reasonable prices and the only ones that will turn to the darknet are the ones that wouldn't pay for it anyway. Most people have a sense of right and wrong. A lot of you keep forgetting that publishers have a very easy option with ebooks. They could plaster them with ads. The Google way of life, you might call it. To me, a much greater horror then paying a few bucks for them. And as to the other alternatives, do we really want a few government bureaucrats decide for us which authors are "worthy" and get subsidies from a central fund? There is no free lunch. Education is the key, we must pay one way or the other. If you pay directly you can decide what kind of content will get your support. Just taking what you want for free may be possible but if we all realize it is wrong the system will still work, like it does everywhere else. Then publishers will realize that DRM only hurts honest customers.