έγραψε:When Dan Brown's blockbuster novel "The Lost Symbol" hit stores in September, it may have offered a peek at the future of bookselling. On Amazon.com, the book sold more digital copies for the Kindle e-reader in its first few days than hardback editions. This was seen as something of a paradigm shift in the publishing industry, but it also may have come at a cost. Less than 24 hours after its release, pirated digital copies of the novel were found on file-sharing sites such as Rapidshare and BitTorrent. Within days, it had been downloaded for free more than 100,000 times. Digital piracy, long confined to music and movies, is spreading to books. And as electronic reading devices such as Amazon's Kindle, the Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble's Nook, smartphones and Apple's much-anticipated "tablet" boost demand for e-books, experts say the problem may only get worse. "It's fair to say that piracy of e-books is exploding," said Albert Greco, an industry expert and professor of marketing at Fordham University. Sales for digital books in the second quarter of 2009 totaled almost $37 million. That's more than three times the total for the same three months in 2008, according to the Association of American Publishers (AAP).
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"With the open-source culture on the Internet, the idea of ownership -- of artistic ownership -- goes away," Alexie added. "It terrifies me."
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Piracy of digital music, thanks to Napster and other file-sharing sites, has been a threat to recording companies for more than a decade. Over the years, the record companies tried different approaches to combat illegal downloading, from shutting down Web sites to encrypting songs with digital-rights management software to suing individual file-sharers.
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Ana Maria Allessi, publisher for Harper Media at HarperCollins, told CNN, "we have to be vigilant in our punishment ... but much more attractive is to simply make the technology better, legally." E-book technology offers so many positives for both the author and the consumer that any revenue lost to piracy may just be a necessary evil, she said. "Consumers who invest in one of these dedicated e-book readers tend to load it up and read more," said Allessi. "And what's wrong with that?"
Νομίζω ότι επαναλαμβάνεται η ιστορία με τα CD. Η εκδοτική βιομηχανία είναι σε κάμψη και αντί οι εκδότες να προσφέρουν τα ψηφιακά βιβλία πράγματι φθηνά, δεδομένου ότι το κόστος παραγωγής είναι μηδαμινό (φανταστείτε τι σημαίνει ένα τυπωμένο βιβλίο σε χαρτί, τυπογραφείο, μεταφορικά κλπ.) τα πουλάνε σε συγκρίσιμη τιμή με τα «κανονικά», ή (τρελό;) και πιο ακριβά (!), κάτι που έχει ως αποτέλεσμα να ξαναβλέπουμε την ιστορία της πειρατείας.
Εκείνο πάντως που μου έκανε τη μεγαλύτερη εντύπωση είναι αυτό το απίθανο
!!έγραψε:"With the open-source culture on the Internet, the idea of ownership -- of artistic ownership -- goes away," Alexie added. "It terrifies me."
και μ' αρέσει να γράφω με πένα στο χαρτί αλλά σε τελική ανάλυση από το πανεπιστήμιο μέχρι σήμερα ό,τι θέλω να γράψω το γράφω με πληκτρολόγιο και όχι με στυλό. Τι να κάνουμε, αλλάζουν οι καιροί.
πλάκα κάνω