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Book Publishers. Stop Scaring Me

Posted at 7:56AM Monday 08 Feb 2010

Downloads did not kill the music business. Shortsightedness and turf-protection on the part of music business executives did. Piracy and changing distribution schema will not kill the publishing industry. Shortsighted infrastructure-protection on the part of publishing houses will.

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