10-13-2012, 09:18 AM | #136 |
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That $1 price point is already common for much media. It gets a lot of people to buy who otherwise wouldn't. The problem is when the media companies blame the "not buying" numbers on piracy because they have no way to know how much, if any, money is lost. I actually heard, with my own ears, a record label guy state that if people aren't buying, they are stealing it. He really believes that. Can't possibly be because cookie cutter singers all sound the same, which is why I wouldn't buy. They think a little too highly of their product, it seems. |
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The ones driving the switch are the former buyers of thrift-store romances and used-book-shop SF novels, who are willing to pay $2 per book to buy and read 10 books a week--if they can find 10 new books a week to read. Those people, who are students and housewives than any other categories, have mostly been invisible to publishers' marketing campaigns; their voracious reading habits were considered irrelevant because they didn't feed into the royalty stream. They're also the ones supporting the darknet filesharing, because they come from a background that assumes that resources of any sort are expected to be shared. When they're done with a book, they hand it along to someone else who hasn't read it. Anything else feels like sending used books into a paper shredder in order to force future readers to buy a new copy. Ending the commercial threat of piracy will take acknowledging those readers and finding a way to convince them not to distribute their files widely. That's probably going to require a way to legitimately distribute to family and close friends, because right now, there's no legal difference between "email an ebook to your aunt in another state" and "upload the ebook to megafileshare and PM the link to your aunt... and if she shares the link around, well, so what?" |
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10-13-2012, 03:01 PM | #139 | |
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And this with DRM and lending restrictions. Remove DRM and/or permit resale and we have the ability to surpass 75%. With ebooks authors have the potential for greater income and less income. I can understand the uneasiness felt by the industry. |
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10-13-2012, 07:06 PM | #141 | |
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And you are really not talking about what is legal. You are making a moral argument. If you only wanted to make a legal argument you just have to say that it is illegal. Instead you are talking about taking without paying and the anger that causes. Did you really mean that the anger was only because it was illlegal? I really do not believe you only meant that. You seemed to say that they were angry because of moral reasons. |
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Well, Tompe, piracy is illegal and wrong --- borrowing a pbook from a friend or buying second hand is not, but is one of the intended uses. If a book sells well second hand it is actually good for the author publisher (the original buyers have more money to spend on new books and are confident that they will be able to sell any new books they buy now). Why compare an innocent fair-rights use that is good for the copyright holder with piracy? Satisfied?
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10-14-2012, 12:05 AM | #143 | |
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10-14-2012, 05:31 AM | #144 | |
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There's nothing wrong with lending your mother your reading device with the book on it - that way, only one person has the eBook, and there's no piracy. |
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Why is piracys illegal? Why is it wrong? Are people angry because it is wrong? Or are they angry because it is illegal? If downloading books were legal (like it is in Holland) the I assume you think that there are no reason for creators to get angry because people "take something without paying for it" or? |
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Some people are confusing even the very definition of piracy. They amalgamate people that sell stolen goods with people that share for free and no profit.
Pirates used to be these gangs that scoured the seven seas searching for treasures to pillage, all for PROFIT. Sharing is NOT wrong though it may be considered illegal. I reject altogether that notion of wrong, it's a judgement on the part of others to sharers and they have no right to do that. Sometimes I have to wonder if some people are not simply jealous that they pay for digital content while smarter people don't. Whenever I buy something, a video game, a movie or a book, I do it because I want to and if I hear others manage somehow to get it from a third party that shared it, well good for them, I did not buy a content to be a good little brainless sheep that does what the government wants him to do, I bought it cause it was my choice period, regardless of how others acquired it. And in this neo-liberal economy with all the limitations to individual freedoms such as DRM, geo-restrictions or unequal quality depending on location (e.g. A special edition of a book with extras in a territory but not in another) I CERTAINLY could never blame "smarter" people. So yeah it sounds like jealousy to me ... Quote:
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