Quote:
Originally Posted by Harmon
I've pretty much come to the point where if there's an ebook version I'll buy it, and if there's not, I have no qualms about getting a darknet version. I have no sympathy for authors and publishers who want to restrict publication to analog versions. I'm not going to haul around a two inch thick book when there's an e-version available, and I'm certainly not going to reward people for not selling me what I want, and insisting that it's the two inch thick book, or nothing. They can have their wish - they sell me nothing.
So, do I think I need to jump through hoops to compensate the author? Nope. It's real simple to get me to pay for an ebook - have one available to sell.
|
this so sums up my feelings.
me and the wife have both been looking to drop books and get a little more environmentally friendly. yes we are aware of the carbon footprint of an ereader/ipad, but the long term impact on trees is a lot more devastating.
however, it seems that 80-90% of the books, magazines and comics that we want are not available in an ereader form.
how can someone make money off me if they don't make the product available for purchase? nice catch-22 that they put themselves in.
the overhead for making an e-file is very little compared to the paying of the logging company to cut down the tree, the transport company to move the tree, the papermill workers to unload and process the tree, the transport company to pick up the finished paper to deliver to the printer, the ink and processing of the medium into final form, the transport company again to pick up and deliver to publisher warehouse, picked up again and delivered to retailer warehouse, delivered again to final retailer store front.
you would think that somewhere within that EXTREMELY simplified wall-o-text that someone could sit at a computer and make a single scan of the product and upload/distribute it for sale.
seems pretty simple to me. *readies fire suit for impending flaming of over simplification*
