Comments on: How to ignore reality: Be a publisher—live in a delusional world http://www.teleread.org/2008/11/03/how-to-ignore-reality-be-a-pubisher-live-in-a-delusional-world/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:46:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Marcus Sundman http://www.teleread.org/2008/11/03/how-to-ignore-reality-be-a-pubisher-live-in-a-delusional-world/comment-page-1/#comment-950586 Marcus Sundman Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:02:41 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=12970#comment-950586 If some business model doesn't work when the times change, then it's NOT the government's job to make laws to help that old business model. Nobody has the right to earn money doing whatever he/she wants to do. It's nice when it's possible (e.g., I love programming and it certainly puts food on my table), but it's most certainly not a right. If some business model doesn’t work when the times change, then it’s NOT the government’s job to make laws to help that old business model. Nobody has the right to earn money doing whatever he/she wants to do. It’s nice when it’s possible (e.g., I love programming and it certainly puts food on my table), but it’s most certainly not a right.

]]> By: Bryan http://www.teleread.org/2008/11/03/how-to-ignore-reality-be-a-pubisher-live-in-a-delusional-world/comment-page-1/#comment-950270 Bryan Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:42:02 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=12970#comment-950270 This is another 'change the business model' opinion with no suggestions of <i>how</i> to change the business model. They are a dime a dozen. It seems to be easy to lionize content distributors, but quite hard to give them actual suggestions for staying profitable in these changing times. Maybe that means they have a point? This is another ‘change the business model’ opinion with no suggestions of how to change the business model.

They are a dime a dozen. It seems to be easy to lionize content distributors, but quite hard to give them actual suggestions for staying profitable in these changing times. Maybe that means they have a point?

]]> By: Marcus Sundman http://www.teleread.org/2008/11/03/how-to-ignore-reality-be-a-pubisher-live-in-a-delusional-world/comment-page-1/#comment-948088 Marcus Sundman Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:37:08 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=12970#comment-948088 Every once in a while I try to find some particular book or books in any non-DRMed electronic format. But no matter how much I search I won't find anything else but "pirated" versions. As this continues I get better and better at finding "pirated" stuff, and if the publishers continue with their deluded nonsense I'm sooner or later going to stop even looking for those (non-existing) legal alternatives and instead put the efforts into making the currently-not-so-legal non-commercial copying legal. Every once in a while I try to find some particular book or books in any non-DRMed electronic format. But no matter how much I search I won’t find anything else but “pirated” versions. As this continues I get better and better at finding “pirated” stuff, and if the publishers continue with their deluded nonsense I’m sooner or later going to stop even looking for those (non-existing) legal alternatives and instead put the efforts into making the currently-not-so-legal non-commercial copying legal.

]]> By: Rob Preece http://www.teleread.org/2008/11/03/how-to-ignore-reality-be-a-pubisher-live-in-a-delusional-world/comment-page-1/#comment-948030 Rob Preece Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:17:49 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=12970#comment-948030 When I saw the headline, I was already nodding my head. Yep, if you want to be a publisher, you've got to pretty much ignore reality. Reality is that fewer people are reading. Reality is that it's easy to pirate books (or music) and many readers seem to feel like they're justified in doing exactly that. To be a publisher in this day and age, you've go to ignore reality at least a little--and work to change reality into something that is book-friendly. I agree that DRM is a problem not a solution. This doesn't mean that the problem DRM was intended to solve isn't a problem. Rob Preece Publisher, www.BooksForABuck.com When I saw the headline, I was already nodding my head. Yep, if you want to be a publisher, you’ve got to pretty much ignore reality. Reality is that fewer people are reading. Reality is that it’s easy to pirate books (or music) and many readers seem to feel like they’re justified in doing exactly that. To be a publisher in this day and age, you’ve go to ignore reality at least a little–and work to change reality into something that is book-friendly.

I agree that DRM is a problem not a solution. This doesn’t mean that the problem DRM was intended to solve isn’t a problem.

Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForABuck.com

]]> By: Brian Carnell http://www.teleread.org/2008/11/03/how-to-ignore-reality-be-a-pubisher-live-in-a-delusional-world/comment-page-1/#comment-947870 Brian Carnell Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:01:31 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=12970#comment-947870 Last night I use Torrent to download a set of books. I gladly would have paid for e-book versions of them, but they're simply not available in an e version anywhere, period. And the entire set is OOP, so even in physical form the only way to purchase wouldn't have benefited the publisher or author. I always find it weird given how much of our lives these days are digital that there are so many books that you simply can't buy, period, unless you can track them down through some used book dealer. Last night I use Torrent to download a set of books. I gladly would have paid for e-book versions of them, but they’re simply not available in an e version anywhere, period. And the entire set is OOP, so even in physical form the only way to purchase wouldn’t have benefited the publisher or author.

I always find it weird given how much of our lives these days are digital that there are so many books that you simply can’t buy, period, unless you can track them down through some used book dealer.

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