a:60:{s:15:"comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:14:"comment_author";s:7:"FMonkey";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:22:"firemonkey2000@msn.com";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:0:"";s:15:"comment_content";s:1373:"After following this discussion, I am even more convinced that the publishers will need to make a significant change in course, or the problem will become much worse.

I offer the following article as evidence:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/889452-264/harpercollins_caps_loans_on_ebook.html.csp

So while Macmillan and Simon & Schuster flat refuse to allow ebooks in public libraries, HarperCollins has decided that ebooks should only be allowed 26 checkouts per title.  Another blatant grab for MORE revenue than they had with paper copies.  So what is the life expectancy of a paper book, anyway?  I just saw a book from Isaac Newtons library on Pawn Stars...it has been making money in the secondary market for hundreds of years!

As long as publishers grasp at straws like this, there is going to be little sympathy for piracy.  Just ask the music industry...

Recurring revenue is king.  The publishers need to quit trying to snatch as much as they can from the legitimate consumer on the initial sale, and bring more people into the fold.  Make it up with volume - Perhaps a subscription model?  

I think the self-published authors are ahead of the curve here, since they do not have to operate under the burden of the machine.  I would be curious to see how an established author would fare financially if they directly marketed their material.";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:"72.188.121.115";s:10:"user_agent";s:90:"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13";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:7:"FMonkey";s:10:"POST_email";s:22:"firemonkey2000@msn.com";s:8:"POST_url";s:0:"";s:12:"POST_comment";s:1373:"After following this discussion, I am even more convinced that the publishers will need to make a significant change in course, or the problem will become much worse.

I offer the following article as evidence:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/889452-264/harpercollins_caps_loans_on_ebook.html.csp

So while Macmillan and Simon & Schuster flat refuse to allow ebooks in public libraries, HarperCollins has decided that ebooks should only be allowed 26 checkouts per title.  Another blatant grab for MORE revenue than they had with paper copies.  So what is the life expectancy of a paper book, anyway?  I just saw a book from Isaac Newtons library on Pawn Stars...it has been making money in the secondary market for hundreds of years!

As long as publishers grasp at straws like this, there is going to be little sympathy for piracy.  Just ask the music industry...

Recurring revenue is king.  The publishers need to quit trying to snatch as much as they can from the legitimate consumer on the initial sale, and bring more people into the fold.  Make it up with volume - Perhaps a subscription model?  

I think the self-published authors are ahead of the curve here, since they do not have to operate under the burden of the machine.  I would be curious to see how an established author would fare financially if they directly marketed their material.";s:11:"POST_submit";s:12:"Post Comment";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:"9573640174";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:"1609";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:63:"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8";s:19:"HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET";s:30:"ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING";s:12:"gzip,deflate";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:14:"en-us,en;q=0.5";s:15:"HTTP_CONNECTION";s:10:"keep-alive";s:11:"HTTP_COOKIE";s:0:"";s:9:"HTTP_HOST";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:15:"HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE";s:3:"115";s:12:"HTTP_REFERER";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:15:"HTTP_USER_AGENT";s:90:"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13";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:"72.188.121.115";s:11:"REMOTE_PORT";s:5:"59219";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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