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2014-12-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

How publishers did everything wrong fighting Amazon over e-books

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Posted by badanov 2014-12-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 They were too busy protecting their business model to relaize it had become outdated. They should have done it the old fashioned way: buy congress off and pass restrictive regulations - like the MPAA and RIAA did with the 75 years extension to copyrights.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-12-28 00:53|| 2014-12-28 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 The webpage cannot be found

OOOOKKKKKAAYY.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-12-28 15:39|| 2014-12-28 15:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Alternate link.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-12-28 15:42|| 2014-12-28 15:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Amazon has now introduced a subscription service for their kindle books. Kindle unlimited offers a library of 700K books for 9.99/month. Tempting...

I use e-books almost exclusively, otherwise I'll have to cart around about 800lbs of reference books.

There's also 24x7 books and Safari, I can access via my IEEE and ACM memberships tho they can be kind of a hassle to access.

I'll bet the monks were pretty pissed off when the printing press was invented too.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-12-28 16:09|| 2014-12-28 16:09|| Front Page Top

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