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10-15-2010, 03:39 PM | #48 |
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No; the author (or rather, their agent) attempts (naturally enough) to maximise the income from a book by offering the rights to the book to different publishers in different countries. Two contracts means, for example, two advances. Hence the extremely common situation of different British and American publishers for the same book.
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Same here. I refuse to buy books with DRM.
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JA Konrath did an experiment on piracy a few months ago, he said it didn't affect his Kindle sales in any way. I think the reason for that is more to do with Amazon than anything else. |
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An Aussie iPad user PoV: we were all delighted over here when iBooks was available to us for our iPads. When my iPad arrived, the second thing I did after setup of email etc was to download the iBooks app. Then, I visited the iBooks store, looking for stuff to buy. All I could get was free books. The old classics. Stuff I can get from Project Gutenberg and other sources. My iPad arrived in July... and guess what... here we are in October and we still do not have access to the same bookstore that's available in the US.
Geographical restrictions, stubborn publishers: they are both feeding the piracy "industry". And, like others have noted: I won't buy something thats DRM'd and I won't buy it if its as expensive or nearly as expensive as a paper copy. I use Stanza now, I get what I want from "other sources" (including Baen, fictionwise and Munseys) Last edited by kyteflyer; 10-15-2010 at 06:09 PM. |
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Steven Lake is right: the publishers will wait until money is running out of their pockets before they'll change. Do you think Universal & Fox launched Hulu because they desperately wanted to convenience their viewers who'd missed shows on the air? Hellz no! They did it to compete with YouTube, where their product was being posted without their consent, and with no money coming into their pockets.
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This is one of the main reasons it is difficult to get a ground swell of support for dropping DRM ... because for most customers, in fact, it doesn't get in the way. The most common "glitch" is "I can't lend the file" but the reality is you can lend the Kindle in exactly the same you you'd loan the paperback. |
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