On 8/9/2014 6:01 PM, Scott Gomez wrote:
And yep, again. Everyone gets to be inconvenienced just so the studios
could be mollified.
The flip side is that pretty much everything is available free on the web.
Did the studios shoot themselves in the foot by being so draconian? Certainly there seem to be a lot of folks buying new
videos, ripping and posting them, over and over, as they are pulled off.
Same with ebooks. Old titles from before electronic forms are sometimes hard to find, while new ones are usually readily
available. Publishers may be even crazier than movie studios. When a friend's new book came out, it was MORE as a kindle
book than shipped as a physical one. Oh, now it's a whole 68 cents cheaper than a physical copy.
Whether it's true or not, I believe most of us heavy book consumers believe that a fair price for ebooks would be in the
range of 20-30% of the physical book, for the same absolute margin. By pricing at such a perceived unfair level, they
make the alternative - $0 - awfully attractive.
I know plenty of people who still prefer a physical book. That's long past for me. Sitting in our little van conversion
RV with one small device with over 100 books on it beats the heck out of carrying several much larger books in the
limited storage space. Same thing living out of a suitcase for a month at a time. And really, I prefer the Nook even at
home.
E. Book Moose
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