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If you allow this company to happen then they’ll be able to set the market price for buying and selling books to libraries, bookstores, bookstores, etc…. If th
by nullish_signal 4y ago
If you allow this company to happen then they’ll be able to set the market price for buying and selling books to libraries, bookstores, bookstores, etc….
If this were to happen they would also be able to limit how many books are being printed, and therefore they may censor authors and books that have unpopular or controversial opinions. They’ll also try to control the amount of books that get sold to the public because it could increase the prices of buying them in bookstores.
- Finnucane 4y agoAs a former S&S employee, I would have to say, that makes no sense at all.
- voz_ 4y ago
- Finnucane 4y ago30-year veteran of the publishing industry. I know how it works. The idea that publishers would publish a book and willfully restrict sales is absurd. That is also not how book pricing works. Who would choose to drive up unit costs for no reason? Publishers like selling books, and the only thing they like more is selling more books.
- bheadmaster 4y agoAs a random person on the internet, it makes sense to me. Would you please explain what exactly doesn't make sense?
- rwalle 4y agoSorry your comment carries no information. You need to say in at least one sentence why it makes no sense.
- quickthrower2 4y agoWhy is this a thing when there is digital publishing? Surely ebooks would be dwarfing physical books now?
- TeMPOraL 4y agoThey are, but they have a huge spam problem. So does physical books to an extent, but it's meaningfully worse with e-books.
- Tangurena2 4y agoDigital textbooks frequently come with expiration dates. So you pay almost the same amount as a paper book, only for it to disappear shortly after the semester is over. Other digital books cost almost the same as the paper edition. And with DRM frequently baked into the book, you can't pass it on to the next person. That said, I am somewhat addicted to erotica on Kindle because the books that scratch my itches aren't available in dead-tree editions.