The music industry did it to themselves by screwing the consumer on cd prices, so too bad for them. Artists and pseudo-musicians probably get almost as much from an itunes sale as they did from a cd sale costing ten times as much. And while Ticketmaster continues to royally screw concert goers with their ridiculous markups and fees, at least the bands make some decent money off of touring. Now that is hard work, especially for these old guys like Steven Tyler and Co!
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Raymond E. Feist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 21, 2011, at 7:53 PM, Anestis Kozakis wrote: > >> On 22 November 2011 13:53, Raymond E. Feist <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Nov 21, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Jason Akehurst wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Ray, >>>> >>>> I understand this is probably one of those, business questions... but do >>>> you have any control over what books get published in digital format? I'm >>>> slowly starting to move to kindle for "favourite" books.. ie those books >>>> that I might want to read over and over while travelling.. and only your >>>> newer books seem to be on the kindle bookshop... >>>> >>>> And as a followup (fully expecting to have a no comment or similar) are >>>> there plans to publish magician and the rest to digital format sometime >>>> soon... >> >>> Eventually everything will be in digital format. >> >> And a lot of it already is, as some of us and your lawyers know, >> available on torrent sites. > > > I'm speaking of the legit epub stuff, not some text file from a bad OCR > session some years ago. > > The thing Apple showed the world with iTunes is if you give people a cheap, > legal way with a cool interface to download music, they'd use it. Sure, > there are torrent sites, emule, limewire, etc. and some folks are still > burning CDs or using MP3 players, and Sony, SanDisk, Samsung, etc. are making > MP3 players, but there are a hell of a lot more iPods and iPhones being used. > > Now, in epublishing, imagine the torrent files are bad cassette tapes. It's > financially not a big deal, really. It's about the same damage as what fell > off trucks in print terms. Music companies were losing millions. Publishers > of books are losing thousands. > > Best, R.E.F. > > ---- > www.crydee.com > > Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by > stupidity. > > > > > > > > -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
