Well, I think the music and movie industry has had a few other things happen that have hurt their bottom line more than the internet.
Namely: Crap. The movies and music that has been release in the past few years just hasn't been that good. Sure there are good things here and there, but there hasn't been greatness in the movies or in music in a while. I'm not a big comic reader, so I don't know if the same can be said for that area, but I imagine there has been some of that as well, correct me if I'm wrong. > -----Original Message----- > From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:45 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: who cares > > could work both ways tho... > > it's possible that the 12 year old kid in question wasn't going to buy > the book anyway. so now he downloads it and reads it. great. he > might actually like it. he might actually like it enough to start > reading it regularly. He might even like it enough that he wants to > check out other books by the same writer/penciller/publisher. > > He might even ask mom to take him down to the local comic book shop > one day so he can see what else is available...maybe talk to the local > comic shop owner and ask what other titles he/she would recommend > based on his liking of this other particular title. > > Or...yes, he could just continue to download the books. It's going to > happen and those that continue to ONLY download are going to have to > be considered a 'hit' to the income of all involved > (publishers/retailers/creators/etc). > > Still (and again, I recognize that this might just be me not being > objective due to my own collector's mentality), I don't foresee the > downloading of comic books hurting the industry to the extent that it > has (arguably) hurt the music and movie/tv industries. It's a > different medium and one where (again, to me), collecting the titles > and trying to fill in the holes is half the fun. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:146451 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
