I notice big copyright is very careful these days to produce this sort of paen about the authors' rights [1], leaving sordid financial concerns a distant memory.
I was moderating a panel on ebooks at Eastercon where we were trying not to have the evils-of-DRM discussion but didn't entirely succeed. I won't name the publisher, but you would have inferred from their representative that it would be better to have 100 copies out there all of which are paid for than 400 copies, 200 of which are paid for...
[1] which frankly is taking the piss a bit when it's the music industry.
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Date: 2010-04-18 01:58 pm (UTC)I was moderating a panel on ebooks at Eastercon where we were trying not to have the evils-of-DRM discussion but didn't entirely succeed. I won't name the publisher, but you would have inferred from their representative that it would be better to have 100 copies out there all of which are paid for than 400 copies, 200 of which are paid for...
[1] which frankly is taking the piss a bit when it's the music industry.