On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 01:51:44PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Why would Baen not exist w/o copyright and why is it helping so much now? > > Because any random person could take the text and publish it without > compensating the author. Even though the book is free to read, it is > not free to copy commercially.
So people read the e-books which somehow give the authors enough cred that publishers are more willing to do deals with them? Hmm. ok. I've never heard of that before. 2 things I'm wondering.... 1. Why would people then pay for dead tree version or not just print it themselves? 2. Why not just do everything digital and avoid publishers altogether!? > Look at what has happened to the game software industry because of that > mentality. Games get 99% of their revenue from the initial push and > almost nothing thereafter. It tends to suck the creativity and > diversity out of the ecosystem. I thought that was because everyone always wanted latest greatest game..w/ or w/o copyright. I'm not into games so I don't know. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
