Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Napster Redux.

I can't even begin to pretend to know the first thing about price points in the publishing industry.  But to the casual observer, like myself, who is, admittedly, biased in favor of the Kindle and in favor of lower prices, the smackdown between Amazon and publishing companies like ol' Mr. Burns, I mean, Rupert Murdoch over the selling price of e-books just reeks -- REEKS -- of the music industry resisting the inevitable switch to digital media -- and we all know how that turned out.  Napster doesn't have the notoriety it once did, but iTunes would not exist today without it.  I pray we can avoid a similar brouhaha with books.  Because books are awesome and make I look smrt.

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