I want to buy ebooks. But I want to buy them at a reduced cost and with no shonky security crap. Talk about failed business model. It seems the media types are just not willing to recognise that they aren't giving value for money, and people are voting with their wallets.
This is exactly what thousands of us have been saying for years. The stupid proles in accounting and marketing are too damn scared to be creative and try something new - like an idea.
Something that has been pissing me off for, oh, a decade or so ...
It's like the movie/TV show downloading thing. If it comes out in the US or UK a year before we get it here (if we get it at all) is it any wonder people download it in droves?
Download (using BitTorrent, of course) the live presentation of "Piracy Is Good?", delivered by Mark Pesce on May 6th, 2005 at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. (200MB)
Why do current media moguls see their customers as the enemy? If they stopped suing us and started trying to entice us things might go more smoothly!
Indeed. But until they let go of their obsession with "how things are done around here" we'll just keep finding new ways around their obsessions with not giving us what we want.
I'm trying not to focus on this as my PhD topic ...
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This is exactly what thousands of us have been saying for years. The stupid proles in accounting and marketing are too damn scared to be creative and try something new - like an idea.
Something that has been pissing me off for, oh, a decade or so ...
Download (using BitTorrent, of course) the live presentation of "Piracy Is Good?", delivered by Mark Pesce on May 6th, 2005 at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. (200MB)
Indeed. But until they let go of their obsession with "how things are done around here" we'll just keep finding new ways around their obsessions with not giving us what we want.
I'm trying not to focus on this as my PhD topic ...