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Originally Posted by ebookpirate
DMcCunneyDennis--LIT is "more open" because it has been easily cracked. It certainly wasn't designed as open.
You can crack Mobi, too, and one of the other folks here wrote an app to do it.
Oh, Mobi's been cracked? thanx for telling me. but i don't think i want to add another bloated software on my computer. my computer resources are running out here with adobe's pdf reader software.
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I have Mobi reader installed on my PDA in case there is content I want to read that is only in Mobi format. With the variety of platforms a reader exists for, Mobi is now the default standard ebook format. I don't bother with it on the desktop because I don't need it, but I have the resources if required.
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The Stones still get out on the road and play.
They go out and play with more frequency NOW!! But as i stated before when i posted "pre-mp3", they'd just laze around in their mansions and limousines cooing as the $$$'s rolled in, while watching their loyal fans get ripped off for $20 or more per album
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They got out on the road and played before. But when you are a multi-platinum act that fills stadiums, going out of the road isn't a snap "Let's go play" decision. It's an enormous undertaking.
And the Stones still play in part, I think, because Keith Richards and Ron Wood are old fashioned musicians who believe in the gig. Keith commented in an interview a while back that he could be 80 years old and in a wheelchair, but if people still wanted to see him he'd get out there and play. (There's certainly precedent: legendary guitarist Les Paul still does weekly NYC gigs with a jazz trio, and he's in his 90's...)
And there were stories about Richards and Wood dropping into clubs in NYC to jam, because they didn't want to lose their chops.
Bill Wyman retired from touring because he was tired of the road, but remains the Stones archivist. The rest seem willing enough.
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I know a chap who is doing something like you suggest. His band has a couple of major label and a batch of indie label releases. They have a following, and make their living touring. He'd like you to buy their CDs, but if you rip them and share them with friends, he's cool with that, too: the more people who hear the music, the more will go to see them when they play.
I'm cool with that too. Most of the singers i like earn their money on the road. Ever heard of Melissa Ferrick or Emilie Autumn? Not many people do. But NOW, the "big stars" have to compete for my $$'s with other indie artists that consumers have found and loved outside the usual big 5 music cartel system. Alot more of the big stars ought to be earning their living on their feet, not their backs.
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What you describe is a lot more common for country musicians.
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It's turning the industry model upside down. Before MP3s, that album was the product, and you played gigs to promote the album. Now we are seeing the albums promoting the gigs.
Good. As i said in the last paragraph, performers ought to PERFORM for a living; it would challenge them to make better music.
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Where does that leave stuff created specifically for recordings? I have stuff in my collection I'm extravagantly fond of that I doubt could be done live, and wasn't meant to be. It was designed for headphones and appropriate enhancement.
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But meanwhile, how does that model translate for an author of books?
I'm not sure the pool of ad dollars is big enough. And if that's doable at all, it will be major publishers who can implement it. Smaller independent and folks self-publishing will be frozen out. They won't be able to attract advertisers. Advertisers place ads where they think the ads will generate sales, and be seen by a sufficient number of viewers interested in whatever it is they advertise.
Consumers want to open and read the books of authors who produce books that will make them turn the page or are useful to them in one way or another. Those authors with the most readers will obviously attract more advertisers whether or not the publisher is large or small. Can anyone say Baen? Obviously i'm not boy genius with all the kinks worked out with exactly which books should get the most advertising, but it IS obvious that ebooks are valuable just as mp3's are. it's just a matter of the proper form of payment exchange to the authors/publishers.
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Re-read what I said about small publishers and independents promoting their own work.
What you want would effectively perpetuate what we have now, because you'd pretty much have to be signed by a major publisher to attract the ads.
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Dennis