a:63:{s:15:"comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:14:"comment_author";s:4:"Alan";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:19:"inksmithy@gmail.com";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:0:"";s:15:"comment_content";s:880:"I looked at your entry regarding whether or not cost is a factor and I have to say, I disagree with you. Looking at the figures in real terms is somewhat disarming, since the economy of then and now is so different.
Regardless of that though, I think its obvious that the publishing industry really does need to find a new model, or get used to the fact that piracy occurs.
Don't get me wrong here, I sympathise with you on this issue, I simply believe that it is time to banish that coil of dread in your belly which appears when you know you are going to be stepping out of your comfort zone.
The facts are, the capacity exists for your work to be reproduced almost infinitely, for no more cost than the rearrangment of some electrons. Take advantage of that capacity or someone else will.
Apologies for the wall of text, I'm writing this on my phone, formatting can be awkward.";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ip";s:14:"212.183.128.74";s:10:"user_agent";s:138:"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-gb; Desire_A8181 Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1";s:8:"referrer";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:4:"blog";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:9:"user_role";s:0:"";s:21:"akismet_comment_nonce";s:6:"passed";s:11:"POST_author";s:4:"Alan";s:10:"POST_email";s:19:"inksmithy@gmail.com";s:8:"POST_url";s:0:"";s:12:"POST_comment";s:880:"I looked at your entry regarding whether or not cost is a factor and I have to say, I disagree with you. Looking at the figures in real terms is somewhat disarming, since the economy of then and now is so different.
Regardless of that though, I think its obvious that the publishing industry really does need to find a new model, or get used to the fact that piracy occurs.
Don't get me wrong here, I sympathise with you on this issue, I simply believe that it is time to banish that coil of dread in your belly which appears when you know you are going to be stepping out of your comfort zone.
The facts are, the capacity exists for your work to be reproduced almost infinitely, for no more cost than the rearrangment of some electrons. Take advantage of that capacity or someone else will.
Apologies for the wall of text, I'm writing this on my phone, formatting can be awkward.";s:11:"POST_submit";s:7:"Publish";s:20:"POST_comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:19:"POST_comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:26:"POST_akismet_comment_nonce";s:10:"287a520c84";s:23:"POST_subscribe-reloaded";s:3:"yes";s:15:"SERVER_SOFTWARE";s:79:"Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4";s:11:"REQUEST_URI";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:14:"CONTENT_LENGTH";s:4:"1070";s:12:"CONTENT_TYPE";s:33:"application/x-www-form-urlencoded";s:13:"DOCUMENT_ROOT";s:42:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com";s:17:"GATEWAY_INTERFACE";s:7:"CGI/1.1";s:11:"HTTP_ACCEPT";s:3:"*/*";s:19:"HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET";s:34:"utf-8, iso-8859-1, utf-16, *;q=0.7";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING";s:4:"gzip";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:12:"en-GB, en-US";s:15:"HTTP_CONNECTION";s:10:"keep-alive";s:11:"HTTP_COOKIE";s:0:"";s:9:"HTTP_HOST";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"HTTP_ORIGIN";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:12:"HTTP_REFERER";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:15:"HTTP_USER_AGENT";s:138:"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-gb; Desire_A8181 Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1";s:21:"HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH";s:14:"XMLHttpRequest";s:18:"HTTP_X_WAP_PROFILE";s:66:"http://www.htcmms.com.tw/Android/Common/Bravo/HTC_Desire_A8181.xml";s:4:"PATH";s:13:"/bin:/usr/bin";s:12:"QUERY_STRING";s:0:"";s:15:"REDIRECT_STATUS";s:3:"200";s:11:"REMOTE_ADDR";s:14:"212.183.128.74";s:11:"REMOTE_PORT";s:5:"30754";s:14:"REQUEST_METHOD";s:4:"POST";s:15:"SCRIPT_FILENAME";s:63:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SCRIPT_NAME";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SERVER_ADDR";s:14:"67.225.237.100";s:12:"SERVER_ADMIN";s:37:"webmaster@davidhewson.davidhewson.net";s:11:"SERVER_NAME";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"SERVER_PORT";s:2:"80";s:15:"SERVER_PROTOCOL";s:8:"HTTP/1.1";s:16:"SERVER_SIGNATURE";s:133:"<address>Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at davidhewson.com Port 80</address>
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