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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
I listen to a song, and performing artists get a few cents. Everybody wins.
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Everybody, or just relatively cheap to produce genres?
How's classical doing?
I can listen on Spotify to most Broadway shows for free, or hear them live on Broadway for a hundred dollars a seat. Or more.
Popular music concert prices have also skyrocketed. I don't think many book authors have the option of raising their live performance prices to compensate for cheap eBooks.
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The same is true for videos.
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Yes, in term of US libraries having a reduced role.
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those who refuse to adapt will simply become irrelevant in due course.
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It's hard to argue with that. I guess that some types of books won't get written -- unless we can find a way to retain scarcity.
As a librarian, I think you should be all for DRM. It's central to the only library eBook system that's working at all, Overdrive.
I don't mean to imply having all the answers. I don't think anyone has a full solution for the related problems of keeping libraries strong and of allowing less affluent folks to get eBooks for free while more affluent people pay for them.