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Originally Posted by kennyc
I'm not sure exactly what that article is saying Frank, but I think the issues are different for book publishing than for music primarily because in the music revolution the industry moved to digital well before the pirate controversy began. That is not the case with the publishing industry and therein lies the difference IMO.
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I think digital literature will have to be approached differently than digital music for sure but what do you mean the music "industry moved to digital well before the pirate controversy began"? Maybe in as much as CDs were digital but in terms of selling digital music, there was no kind of healthy online marketplace for music until after piracy became widespread. While piracy of copyrighted content is widespread in general now, it's not as big of an issue for publishing companies yet, probably due in part to the labor involved in scanning and OCRing books. I have no doubt that this will change as ebooks become more predominant, which will likely happen as more people catch on to the ease of cracking DRM. In terms of selling digital content online, I don't know that there was a time when piracy wasn't a real threat.