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Quote me correctly

I'm not getting involved in this discussion again. I just wanted to point out that the quote you use from my comment is out of context. The point of the "50% of publishers adopt such a model." quote...

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wonder how long it will take

Before some company tries to patent/copy right/whatever the For Free Business Model

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Re: Quote me correctly

If every publisher tomorrow gave away every ebook for free, and each book had to compete with every other free ebook, would they spread as fast? There are enough other industries where we've seen...

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Re: Re: Quote me correctly

Yes, but but if ebooks become the standard in 10-20 years, what does that leave authors to sell - and I know, I've seen your list, but I don't think you realize how little money there is for authors...

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Is it really any wonder...

...that he's an author? > In my case, I would guess my readership would have to increase...

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Re: Re: Re: Quote me correctly

I've seen your list, but I don't think you realize how little money there is for authors outside of selling books. Ugh. Corey, I've repeated this many times directly to you: yes, authors do not make...

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Re: Re: Re: Quote me correctly

You worry too much about the wrong thing. Stop focusing on the what-if scenerio and start focus on what is really happening in the world Experiment. Research. Find examples. Study economics. Your "what...

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Article 34

Anybody who think it won't work will automatically discount every examples, thus making the point of trying to convince them moot. It will be much easier to just simply crush them in the free market...

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I believe it.

The best book I ever bought, I read free online first. http://www.johndiesattheend.com/ is the greatest book I've seriously ever seen, and had it been on a shelf in a store and NOT online? No way would...

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Article 32

Naa, it would never work. It would be like.... broadcasting 'free' music on the airwaves. How could that possibly boost sales? lol

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Article 31

How many people have paid to see their favorite author speak? Not many. I am willing to bet that free ebooks will change that. Are blogs not changing that? There are are industries and conferences...

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Article 30

If every publisher tomorrow gave away every ebook for free, and each book had to compete with every other free ebook, would they spread as fast? LOL! Nice! The Bible. It's free - heck, you can find...

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Article 29

There are many ways of giving some content for free, and charging the same content, with another version, formatting, media, etc. Musicians can give your songs for free, and charge for the live...

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It's worked on me, at least

Reading e-books, particulary those released by publishers as a test, is awkward and cumbersome. In my limited experience of sampling the products they are either a file (eg doc, pdf, txt) or are...

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Article 27

Shane, What Corey is arguing includes that the electronic books will improve to the point that those drawbacks you mention no longer are barriers to using the electronic book. So your arguments that...

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Books will last forever.

I am a computer science major at a university, and I strongly support the progression of technology. Regardless of how many features you add to eBooks, they will always suffer the tyranny of...

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Article 25

I'd just like to make a couple small points. I'm a librarian and I give out "free" books all the time. I haven't read the research but I'm willing to bet that library users buy more books than the...

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Baen Books

Baen Books, a scifi and fantasy publisher have been giving away their entire catalog online in 4-5 formats for years now. Their logic is people will get the book, read a few pages-a chapter then get...

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dej

Is this flame discussion starting again with Corey+other people? i've just took time to write something on the other thread. I'm bored with this. It seems to produce no result and has no end.

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Re: Re: Re: Quote me correctly

I think a voluntary pay system would work. I would certainly pay some for the books that the authors are writing and have written. For instance, I read Basilisk Station by David Weber by borrowing the...

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