Of course, my indicating the choice of
actually dying was a gross exaggeration, but I think we see eye to eye. Generally speaking, there's a large group of people out there who don't even consider paying a single cent for their music, movies, games, or software, etc. Yet they do spring for other things that, to me, have a much, much lesser end value. I think it's odd and worthy of examination.
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Originally Posted by Martian
The music and film industries are right in the middle of this, but with products like the Kindle being the next big wave, I have a feeling that the publishing industry is going to be the next front. Brace yourself.
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Amazon is making (or perhaps merely has been until lately) the same mistakes Sony used to (or perhaps still does to an extent) when it came to new technologies and their products in general. The attempt at proprietorship at something like eBooks ain't going to work in the long run. I see many people preferring the Sony Reader over the Kindle for that very reason. I think this has been rectified with the Kindle DX handling PDFs, but it was, at one point, an issue.
That said, smart publishers are realizing that they produce content, not products (i.e. books). It's a different situation than what the music guys face. Books are visual, so it's not quite the same thing. I'm interested to see how things will go down the road, but I can't see myself willingly giving up my paper-bound books. They're as close to a perfect invention as anything.