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The thing that we're all kind of dancing around here is that the publishers are looking at what has happened to the music industry and panicking. My understanding is that sales of CDs are way down these days, since so many people download their music directly to their MP3 players.
The music industry got caught by surprise. The book publishers are trying to preserve their markets without considering the fact that ultimately their business is going to go digital, too, and they'd best be trying to find ways to manage it without honking off too many potential customers.
But the software industry seems to have solved this problem. In order to have English language software, I've bought lots of software online, with the appropriate VAT added to the pre-tax price by some company that does this sort of thing. Why that can't be applied to the publishing industry, I'll never know.
Cheers,
Bev
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