True, selling "texts" is a busted model. I wasn't advocating that particularly; I think the revenue model is in the downstream rights management, not the actual

True, selling "texts" is a busted model. I wasn't advocating that particularly; I think the revenue model is in the downstream rights management, not the actual text. Audio book rights. Film rights. Translation rights. I'm not the biggest fan of the Copyright system in the US as it stands now (specifically Term Length) but pointing out all the different avenues for compensation via multi-media exploitation is a forward-looking business model.