Maybe Amazon cares so much for the same reason Apple/Jobs cared about the pricing of music: too high a price point encourages piracy.
Maybe Amazon cares so much for the same reason Apple/Jobs cared about the pricing of music: too high a price point encourages piracy. Once piracy becomes an easily accessible and socially acceptable mainstream habit, it's going to be very hard to claw back market share. Right now, ebook piracy is by far not as easy and convenient as video or music. That could change as long as ebooks remain overpriced compared to physical books, and DRM impaired to boot. (Sooner or latter the general public is going to find out the hard way how much DRM devalues their "property".) I dunno about the US, where Amazon is king, but in most countries ebook adaption is stagnating and price is quoted as the #1 reason.
Posted by bowlofpetunias on Jul 30, 2014, 6:10 AM
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Yea, I hate that the Lightning didn’t work out.
NewThe answer is mostly that the powerwall is an incredibly overpriced home battery.
NewI think the cybertruck appeals to a very narrow market.
NewAs usual, I was right about the market but way too early.
New> The bigger problem is the legal system isn't a logical system, it's a social construct.
NewAs others pointed out, it's hard to say how much copyrighted material the model already contains in the weights.
NewHey all, this is the first time I'm really sharing this.
Newits like owning a personal computer in 1986.
Maybe Amazon cares so much for the same reason Apple/Jobs cared about the pricing of music: too high a price point encourages piracy.
Maybe Amazon cares so much for the same reason Apple/Jobs cared about the pricing of music: too high a price point encourages piracy. Once piracy becomes an easily accessible and socially acceptable mainstream habit, it's going to be very hard to claw back market share. Right now, ebook piracy is by far not as easy and convenient as video or music. That could change as long as ebooks remain overpriced compared to physical books, and DRM impaired to boot. (Sooner or latter the general public is going to find out the hard way how much DRM devalues their "property".) I dunno about the US, where Amazon is king, but in most countries ebook adaption is stagnating and price is quoted as the #1 reason.
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