Re: "The Elusive E-book"

On May 12, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Robotech_Master wrote:

> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Mary E Tyler <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>
>> Result: We will have more dabblers, and when the rubber hits the  
>> road,
>> people will get out of writing books because there's no money in it.
>
> Wasn't that one of Mark Twain's predictions when he argued in favor of
> perpetual copyright a hundred-odd years ago? I strongly suspect that
> every time there has been any kind of sea change in the publishing
> industry, going all the way back to the invention of the printing
> press, someone has argued that it will stop writers from writing
> because there will be no money in it anymore for them.

It won't prevent everyone just many.

dej

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