Techdirt: Textbook Publishers Continue To Freak Out Over File Sharing
“Of course, the main reason why students download textbooks is because textbooks are ridiculously expensive, but it doesn’t look like publishers are fighting back by lowering prices.
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Basically, the textbook publishers are reacting in exactly the wrong way. Rather than focusing on ways to actually add value and make it worthwhile to pay, they’re looking to come up with ways to lock people in and force them to pay. That’s bound to backfire eventually.”L´economia ai tempi del web – Partito Democratico
Un amico mi segnala di prima mattina questo articolo di Giorgio Ruffolo pubblicato su Repubblica. Sono qui che me lo legge e rileggo, ma non riesco ancora a coglierne l’ubi consistam, tutto mi sembra piuttosto superficiale e fumoso. Ma forse è solo colpa della mia febbre agostana, lo rileggo domani 🙂
“Poco dopo la diffusione della notizia dell’incidente, il titolo Pininfarina è stato sospeso per eccesso di rialzo in Piazza Affari, facendo segnare in pre-apertura un prezzo di 6,6 euro, l’11,44% in più rispetto alla chiusura di ieri.”
Uhm… che vorrà dire?Helene’s site of wonder » Blog Archive » Waking the book publishers (by other means than piracy)
“So the question is, what should we do to make publishers realize there’s a whole big market out there for ebooks that they need to tap into. It’s a market that will grow and they only start feeling the consequence of it when they suddenly realize the books are available as pirated downloads.
My take on it is that I write letters to the publisher of a specific book I want. I will also copy that mail to the author if the author have an official email address available. It goes something like this:
Dear publisher,
It seems like you don’t offer “bookname” by “author” as an ebook. Do you have any plans to do so?
Regards,
my name
I would like to encourage other people to do the same. If enough such letters pops up in their mailbox, then they will catch the drift after a while.”Ho fermato l’Iliad Tour per un mese… 🙁 – Lastknight.com di Matteo Flora
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