Comments on: Thursday eBook Tech News Round Up

By: Kimber An

Kimber An — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:40:42 +0000

“It wasn't the failure to educate, but the failure of the music industry to respond to the changing market and allowing one entity, Apple, to come in and dominate the void, creating a monolopy share of the digital download market (80%).”

I’ve wondered about that. The first law of evolution is to ‘Adapt or Die.’ There’s got to be a more effective way of dealing with the issue than ranting, because that might drive away honest readers as well as pirates.

By: Ann Bruce

Ann Bruce — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:07:31 +0000

@Jane: I haven't been to the SB's site in a while, but I did understand you were referring to a UMPC. However, "Mac mini" was a little confusing at first glance.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:52:33 +0000

@Ann Bruce: Yeah, I know, but that's not what SB Sarah was referencing.

By: Ann Bruce

Ann Bruce — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:49:36 +0000

Uh, Jane, Apple does have a Mac mini. It does not, however, have a UMPC. (Not using the term netbook since Psion has it trademarked.)

By: Teddypig

Teddypig — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:51:32 +0000

Allison Brennan expresses fear about the rise of ebooks given that piracy is destroying musicians.

Is there an actual industry study that supports this unfounded opinion?

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ippd-dppi.nsf/eng/h_ip01456.html
Yeah, I did not think so.

By: XandraG

XandraG — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:09:00 +0000

I keep hearing the whole “pirating is destroying musicians” argument (and actually waiting for the, “…and eatin ur babeez, too!”). I wonder how much of that is digital music killing musicians, versus digital music killing all the leeches in the music industry feeding off musicians like promoters, packagers, distributors, sales reps, etc. After all, a musician’s ability to make music hasn’t been changed much by digitalization (in fact, musicians might be having an easier time of it with computing power for mixing and sampling, and lossless digital formats), but everyone else in “the system” of How Things Are Done is certainly having to rethink their usefulness when How Things Are Done is changing.

Ditto the book industry. My ability to write stories hasn’t changed from ten years ago to today…it’s everybody else involved in the process of delivering my stories to other people that’s changing.