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Nothing makes me more angry than publishers who act like this. I regularly deal with the academic publishing industry and feel the pain of professors and studen
by eldaisfish 6y ago
Nothing makes me more angry than publishers who act like this. I regularly deal with the academic publishing industry and feel the pain of professors and students alike.
The usual suspects are involved here -
>I call on the executives at Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House to come together with us to help solve the pressing challenges to access to knowledge during this pandemic.
The publishing industry should take a cue from the gaming industry. Offer games at a reasonable price, make delivery easy and you only stand to profit. Services like Steam, GOG, Epic et al have massively reduced game piracy. If books were being sold for a couple of dollars each online, we would not need lawsuits like this.
- Qahlel 6y agoEach industry always tries to hold on to max profits first. They don't have long term vision. They only have yearly balance sheets to care about.
- jagged-chisel 6y agoYearly? Pretty sure it’s quarterly executive bonuses driving “The Market.”
- wnevets 6y ago> Services like Steam, GOG, Epic et al have massively reduced game piracy. This has absolutely been the case for me. I went from pirating everything to having so many games that I've paid for but haven't played yet. I'm sure part of it is being older with more disposable income and less free time but its just so much easier to buy the game on steam.
- an_opabinia 6y agoYou'd never know the difference between reducing game piracy and making games that cannot be pirated.
- IggleSniggle 6y agoI don't know about others, but I almost exclusively play single-player local-only games these days. I don't have time for multiplayer games.