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Has the book publishing industry failed to learn from the music publishing industry? Perhaps, this is a last ditch effort at extracting as much revenue as they
by aditya 17y ago
Has the book publishing industry failed to learn from the music publishing industry?
Perhaps, this is a last ditch effort at extracting as much revenue as they can by retaining their illusion of control over something that fundamentally needs to be easy to share so that it becomes viral and generates a lot more revenue...
- jimmyjim 17y agoI don't think the two situations are entirely comparable. The decision to purchase music is squarely on an individual, whereas in colleges I think there's plenty of politics involved in bribing committees to keep on using the newest editions of books, thereby practically forcing students to purchase certain books.