Re: "The Elusive E-book"

From: "Robotech_Master"
I'm a little confused by this. As far as I know, the only 
delivery
mechanism ebooks need—the Internet—has been built already. That's
where I get all my ebooks, be they free or paid.

-------[how is your email set?   it bypasses the 'previous' 
filter]  I won't reopen this, we've been through it before. 
though you more or less answer it below.   iTunes is one delivery 
mechanism because people trust it more than 'free', and because 
the majority of people are honest.

>  It is now that the free ebook is holding back the development 
> of
>  ebooks.   When there is a big market there are opportunites to
>  use loss leaders.

I really doubt this. We had free MP3s all over the place from 
Napster,
Limewire, Kazaa, BitTorrent. We still do, in fact. There's 
nothing
stopping people from going out and downloading all the newest 
releases
for free right now (apart from the fear that the RIAA might 
target
them with a lawsuit, and the odds against that are about the same 
as
the odds of winning a lottery). But that hasn't stopped an 
e-music
vendor, Apple's iTunes, from becoming one of the two biggest 
vendors
of *all* recorded music in the USA.

And consider webcomics. Most webcomics are free to read on-line. 
That
hasn't stopped a number of people from making a living doing 
nothing
but their webcomics. There are also some paid subscription 
webcomic
services, such as Graphic Smash, and they seem to be in no danger 
of
going belly-up.
-- 
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-------I am not sure what these later points  prove, since all 
businesses depend on their ability to attract custom, a different 
set of equations.   But there is no informatotion on whether 
Graphic Smash makes a living for anyone.

------Joseph 


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