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Another poorly written attempt to bash Amazon. Again, it just amplifies something that I have heard for many years - be careful of what you wish for - because you may just get it. Amazon just took advantage of the publisher's hope to take advantage of the consumer with their crazy schemes.
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Yes, we're on the verge of a whole new publishing paradigm.
Maybe we need to grant Amazon a monopoly as we did with the phone system?? Last edited by kennyc; 11-26-2013 at 08:43 AM. |
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![]() (Not so well everywhere else, but still...) Why let facts get in the way of preconceived notions, right? It is easier to bash Amazon than to research the facts and understand why they're successful. |
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You're welcome to disagree, but you are wrong.
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I like cheap prices
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The article would make a lot more sense if they understood what they were talking about.
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Not having read the article, I do find Adobe to be torture. They are ^%&$%@$% EVERYWHERE. Sometimes, they seem to own about every standard in the world from DNG for pictures to PDF for printable documents, to EPUB for books, not to mention that there are no professional alternatives for programs such as Photoshop. There is no use trying to develop one, because the market has invested itself too deeply into Adobe products. Have you ever seen Corel Graphics Suite (the only viable professional alternative, IMHO) used somewhere, for example? I haven't; not in The Netherlands. Adobe is to standards what Google is to the internet: it's practically almost impossible not to get involved with them some way or another. Last edited by Katsunami; 11-26-2013 at 04:25 PM. |
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![]() I'm no fan of Adobe but I haven't heard of them sending kneecappers to the BPHs to force them to use DRM. If the Adobe hegemony is too big a handicap they are free to take note of the TOR experiment. There are no chains so tight as the ones we forge ourselves. I read the article and the only vaguely hopeful sign in there is, in fact, the belated recognition that publishing has an Adobe problem. That's the first step, admitting they have a problem. 11 to go. ![]() |
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I am not too concerned about the 22 cents they charge for DRM either. One part of me says hey maybe I can save 22 cents elsewhere and the other part of me says 'Get a grip'. In my current menial job I make 50+ cents a minute and I could get a better job in less than the time it would take me to save 22 cents on say 10 books. Fortunately or unfortunately I like my current job so I don't bother. Helen |
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