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As for libraries being cheaper, yup-but less range and convenience. I love libraries, don't get me wrong- but for ebooks, they are WAAY behind Amazon. Amazon, of course, is mostly a cloud based service. That's why it makes total sense for them to offer a cloud subscription model. They've got every peice in place but the offline reading. Quote:
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They're objecting to the things you say in the next breaths (made clear in other posts) about this model replacing the ability to download the file. At best, you say that we'd be charged a premium equal to a hardback to do so. Netflix and Rhapsody didn't threaten our ability to go buy the movie at the same prices as before. And using whispernet to defend the HTML5 use of the cloud is also disingenuous. Last edited by Piper_; 04-02-2011 at 07:53 PM. |
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The ill-thought rudeness baffles me. Not only are ebook readers a massive segment of the market, but we terrible "digirati" are also the ones who have the ability to put your (speaking to the publishers - not you, Ralph, Sir. ) books out there - either to give free advertising as we recommend them to others, or to upload and share them. In other words, your customers are people who only have to pay a dime if they choose to, out of their own desire to do right by you. Yet the actions and messages of the publishers and their shills shows no reciprocation of that honor. Nothing but insults to customers' intelligence, characters, and the security of our investments. Even if y'all can't manage to give us those things out of internal integrity, it's in your best interest to at least fake it. Remember: even if you only published in paper, the books still can be and are digitized and pirated. Put bluntly, y'all are in no position to be so insulting. It would be wiser to befriend people who are holding your babies. (And no - I wouldn't put a file on the darknet myself. It only takes one person, though.) Last edited by Piper_; 04-02-2011 at 08:14 PM. |
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Don't forget accusing people who care about controlling their media purchases of being an ivory-tower elite that don't understand or care about "real Americans."
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Ironic isn't it, since we aren't the ones scoffing at the concern over those clueless souls who'll buy without realizing they could to lose access to their purchases.
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Not even that. We know access on the net is not 100%. If I want to go read a book and I cannot access it, I would not be happy. Also, I don't always have net access when I read. So I would need a local copy. I don't mind the cloud where the eBooks live until I download them and have a local copy. If I pay for the content, I want the ability to have it on my computer.
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As far as using the cloud to store eBooks, I would expect eventually someone to come up with a program that would "read" the eBooks off the cloud and save it locally so we have the eBooks in a file. There goes the clouds supposed protection. The more a publisher wants to lock content that I have paid for, the more I want to let it go free to anyone who wants it. The more a publisher removes the locks, the more I don't want to let the content go free. And yes, the locks do cause more piracy then you think. People don't want the locks so they go on the net and find the eBooks without the locks. Then because they find it easy to do, they get more eBooks that way. If the locks were not there in the first place, you don't get as many people going to find the eBooks without the locks and thus, they don't stay for more. I blame any increase in piracy on the publishers. Last edited by JSWolf; 04-02-2011 at 10:53 PM. |
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Avid readers are quite a different crowd from Netflix users. So I doubt a similar strategy would work here, perhaps it would for the next Dan Brown. But in general readers are a completely different market. So all things considered a scheme like this would appear to be an attempt to promote sales of new hardware (internet capable reading devices), unlimited data plans, and pbooks -- especially when it is the only option. |
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