Hi Billy, On Oct 4, 2013, at 6:49 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> There is no reason why this should not be the law of the land. I agree the current situation sucks, but there's many reasons to not legislate against it. a) The current technology sucks. Standardization would freeze it in place and inhibit innovation. b) I agree that high prices are stupid -- but that's the decision of publishers. Individual authors who self-publish are free to set their own prices, and many do. If you're going to take pricing power away from publishers, you're basically trying to dictate their business model. Government is notoriously bad at that sort of thing. That rarely ends well. Better to let the publishers self-destruct from their own incompetence, then have the government try to "fix" them -- and end up having to save them when things bad. :-( -- Ernie P. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
