08-23-2009, 02:09 PM | #1 |
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Bureaucrat Wants To Void Ownership Of Ebooks In Brazil
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This is being covered by an excellent avant-garde brazilian publisher that I discovered only recently, and I felt the need to offer this english version so people across the world could get a feeling for where Brazil might be headed in terms of ebooks. Mobileread, it would be a pleasure if you wanted to pick this up for the blog, in whichever way you like. Or any other website, for that matter. Thanks, Bernie |
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I'm not sure if it's because of the translation, or the article itself (the argument and history as they are presented in the first half read very oddly [almost as though a non sequitur]), but I'm not sure I get the point of the article, really. Sorry.
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Oh, and I'd love if you'd elaborate on what exactly feels non-sequitur to you. I have read it multiple times but can only reckon that the umbrella covering sometimes gets in the way of objectiveness. My best, Bernie |
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Well, at first the article seems to be talking about how publishers fear piracy, then about how customers will be expecting the right to copy at will, then there is a paragraph that is simply untrue (look at iTunes's success. people were very willing to buy DRM-ed materials):
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Then a passage about how publishers can abuse DRM to 'steal' your purchases from you. Then a passage that confuses "DRM-free" with "creative commons" (i.e. no copyright whatever) and "free speech". Then a passage about DRM and vendor lock-in again, and then a passage about how "thing will magically improve". What's missing is mostly a realistic suggestion about an alternative source of income for the authors, about the new role of those publishers, etc. Basically what I don't understand is how they feel they will be different from the others, and more arguments about how that will work, rather than about how "the others aren't getting the new world order". |
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Thanks for providing such detailed feedback. I got your points and will get back on the author with them, I think they're good points.
One thing to note is that this publisher is non-commercial, though. And yes, I see how that makes your points even more relevant And on this one, it might have well been my bad. |
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Creative Commons is not copyright free, but rather that the copyright owner allows for the material to be used openly, if some restrictions are followed (non commercial, etc).
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Hi Zerospinboson,
The text Bernie referred above was written by me. Thanks for your feedback, I'll try to be more objective when writing next time. The Plus publisher is a NGO, non-profit organization. We publish books under CC - non-commercial, non-derivative works, since last year. In Brazil, music market is very different from US and others. Music piracy through MP3 is so high that, many times, recording companies achieve more profits selling shows and tours, instead of CD's or music over Internet. I tried to get a point on this, but I really tought that iTunes was not-so-successfull until it started to sell music without DRM - apparently, as you say, I got the wrong way. The article meant, not to propose anything about new business models for e-books and authors, but to comment about the Brazilian Chamber of Books views about those models and compare it to the current e-book market. Next time I'll be more carefull. Thanks again. Eduardo Melo editoraplus.org |
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A rough history of the iTunes store and DRM goes about like this:
This history, for some reason that I don't understand, appears to be unknown to lots of folks out on the internet. The common assumption is that "competition from Amazon and other DRM-free stores forced Apple to dump their DRM." -- a view which runs counter to plenty of publicly available news accounts and interviews with Apple and record label execs. Go figure. Xenophon Last edited by Xenophon; 08-24-2009 at 11:00 AM. Reason: fix emphasis & grammar |
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I'm not so sure Apple was anti-DRM from the start. I remember seeing reports from some indie labels who asked to have their music DRM-free in the store but were refused.
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But if you go back to the interviews and news pieces in the early days of the ITMS, you'll find that all parties publicly stated that Apple had pushed pretty hard for no DRM, and simply lost on that front. And they weren't against it so strongly as to skip the whole thing rather than accept DRM. Xenophon |
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The article does acknowledge the essential question:
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And unfortunately, the digital realm is forcing alterations to the basic business equation that will impact both sides... and neither side seems to want to accept that. Both sides are demanding changes of the other, without wanting to relinquish any control themselves, and encountering heated resistance. It's become a perpetual tug-of-war, with mud both between the opponents, and behind them... so whoever wins or loses, everyone will get muddy. We are still early in the digital business revolution, and hopefully other industries (like book publishers) will learn the real lessons of the digital music tug-of-war. But I think they're going to get very muddy first, before they finally come to their senses. |
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Apple are very much into control and lock-ins, as can be seen from multiple products. |
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Most of the publishers of the future will be new companies, with little to lose and a lot to gain by embracing the new business models. The few old companies that will survive will be transformed significantly, mostly unrecognizable from their former selves. That's the way of business when a radical new shift in the business models take place, much like the change from a feudal to a democratic society. And we all have front row seats, and some of us are participants, to the storming of the castle. |
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