NPR reported just now about book publishers worried that digital books will be copied and set free on the InterWebs, as was music not so long ago.
Hey, publishers: Zillions of people listen to music. But the thousands (barely) of people who still buy and read books aren't going to bootleg them.
Nobody in the Big City's gonna sell e-books out of inside pockets of a scuzzy overcoat. Street corners from the U.S. to Beijing will be safe. No bookish pirate will launch a literary Napster.
Music and novels = two different entertainment experiences, no matter the format. Little overlap in customers.
Were I a publisher, I would be churning out e-books by the dozens. Pay the author a pittance, turn the digital file over to an underpaid e-technician and off it goes, making money for a tiny investment. It's not like it's hard to find writers with books to publish.
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Update: Remains of yet a third pigeon were left on my front walk this morning.
How long will it take for the pigeons to go away after I stop putting out birdseed?
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