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Originally Posted by tompe
You can for example look at the reviews from people that have read the books and see what they say. Or you can have people that are payed to read books and give some evaluation of them. And so on.
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Are you serious? You mean to pay authors in terms of the reviews they have? Why would that be better than the people who actually read their books paying for them?
Let’s get something clear here. The fairest system is when those who read books by author X pay author X. Whatever strays from this is not as fair.
I favor this:
1) No DRM;
2) Educate people to pay what they use;
3) Make piracy harder.
My point is that the industry will only accept this if one stops talking about the New Digital Heaven that awaits us in which all is Free. Because this talk only means that giants like Google make all the money and authors and publishers go bust. ‘Free’ in this context means Big Corporations that can make a profit from ads. Publishers are not advertising companies (well, they do not see themselves that way) therefore they do not like that idea.