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Originally Posted by mogui
I agree. Sadly, this suggests that either 1/ eBook Readers will fail, or 2/ They will be made and sold by companies that have no interest in selling eBooks.
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Not at all... it really only suggests that DRM will fail. E-books or other devices that can read standardized content (like ePub) have no need to fear. (Some of you may have noticed by now, I say "ePub" a lot because I hope that merely using it enough will put a subliminal tag in everyone's head, finally making it the actual standard!
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Originally Posted by mogui
The consequences are dire for writers unless we can discover another business model. Two have been suggested here. One is DRM under author control, and another is advertising subsidy. Are there other ideas? Is there a better place than MR to discover them?
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ricdiogo's donations idea is a possibility, though I'm not sure how well that'll work. Still, I suppose if you're popular enough...
oh, yeah...
ePub.