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DawnFalcon · 12-29-2009, 01:42 PM

Happ -

I don't need to show them anything. I'm just sitting around and watching the train wreck. I'm hoping, honestly, that the book companies with a clue are going to be able to make up market share online far quicker, and be able to grow, faster than the old book companies - who'll see more and more people going to the darknets for their works

It's darwinian.

(Incidentally, apparently and unsurprisingly the number of people sharing TSR book torrents soared after Wizards pulled the legal PDF's...)

Shappy - Pfft. It enabled them to lock people into iTunes for the critical early years.

12-29-2009, 01:42 PM	#281
DawnFalcon Banned Posts: 2,094 Karma: 2682 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: N/A	Happ - I don't need to show them anything. I'm just sitting around and watching the train wreck. I'm hoping, honestly, that the book companies with a clue are going to be able to make up market share online far quicker, and be able to grow, faster than the old book companies - who'll see more and more people going to the darknets for their works It's darwinian. (Incidentally, apparently and unsurprisingly the number of people sharing TSR book torrents soared after Wizards pulled the legal PDF's...) Shappy - Pfft. It enabled them to lock people into iTunes for the critical early years. Last edited by DawnFalcon; 12-29-2009 at 01:48 PM.