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06-07-2011, 07:28 PM | #32 |
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"The ebook authors like Konrath who have made a tidy living on their books"? And are there many of those? Or are most ebook-exclusive authors earning not much more than lunch money, if that?
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06-07-2011, 07:47 PM | #33 |
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And how many authors of paper books are there who make a tidy living from their books?
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06-07-2011, 10:54 PM | #35 |
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I stand corrected. "Dozens" certainly sounds like the vast majority of profit-driven authors to me.
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06-08-2011, 02:36 AM | #36 |
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06-08-2011, 10:00 AM | #37 | |
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And, oh, yeah... isn't about ebooks anyway. Until and unless we can discuss the pros and cons of digital security without all the histrionics, it can't be discussed. |
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06-08-2011, 10:10 AM | #38 |
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The pirates! They've destroyed my dreams!
Who cares about a run of the mill scifi author, while there are hundreds of better options out there? And some authors wonder why they can't make any money... (oh no, its not my writing that is subpar. Its the pirates, I tell you, the pirates!) EDIT: As for DRM, I've no use for it. All my Kindle books have been duly stripped of this abusive restrictions on my reading... And yes, Mr. Jordan, I've paid for ebooks, from good authors. Last edited by miguel1626; 06-08-2011 at 10:13 AM. |
06-08-2011, 10:21 AM | #39 | |
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06-08-2011, 10:38 AM | #40 |
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06-08-2011, 11:08 AM | #41 | |
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Now be fair... 1st time offence only one spike, 2nd time two (just to make sure that the first worked as well)
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06-08-2011, 12:51 PM | #42 |
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elcreative's DRM scheme really improves upon mr ploppy's. If it were implemented, I'm sure mediocre scifi authors would make vast amounts of money, since people would no longer be able to pirate their masterpieces.
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It is easy for anyone to devise a security system that they aren't clever enough to figure out a way to hack-- the trick is to devise a security system that nobody else is clever enough to figure out to hack. The problem is, there are some very clever people out there (some of them successful SF writers.) |
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06-08-2011, 03:12 PM | #45 | |
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"Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. It's not even hard. What is hard is creating an algorithm that no one else can break, even after years of analysis. And the only way to prove that is to subject the algorithm to years of analysis by the best cryptographers around." But I'm sure Mr. Jordan has a solution involving government thugs and the death penalty for copyright infringement. Last edited by miguel1626; 06-08-2011 at 03:15 PM. |
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