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Old 07-16-2010, 04:44 PM   #11
sad_winslow
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Thanks for the tip, I'm definitely keeping my eye on the bestseller list. The amount of religious fiction, romance, and out-of-copyright stuff has so far been hard to wade through to find anything that I'm really interested in, though - I keep hoping I'll stumble across some gems hidden in there, though.

I've been up to my arse in pre-1932 classic literature since the inception of project gutenberg - i'm specifically trying to avoid loading up my kindle with that stuff. i mean, it's good stuff and i'm glad it's there, don't get me wrong - i've just read most of it that i care to read already. like a million times. and whenever you look for free or cheap resources, out-of-copyright stuff is always waved around, particularly by manufacturers, as "TONS OF FREE CONTENT AVAILABLE!" while technically true, yes, it's also the same "free content" that's been around since my grandparents - or older.

modern content, meanwhile, is stuck in this horrific and complicated licensing/copyright/distribution morass that is strictly controlled by people in suits who haven't read anything beyond the wall street journal for their entire lives, it seems.

in general, it seems like it's getting harder and harder to break established revenue streams and replace them with new ones. of course nobody wants to lose revenue streams but nobody seems willing to even upgrade or shift them i a new direction. these industries are *extremely* risk-averse and overall resistant to even the hint of change. you know, i don't even think Analog/Asimov's took anything but a postal submission until recently, as an example - can you imagine, publications purporting the latest-and-greatest imaginations in science fiction that can't even take an email? it's symptomatic of what it's like that all over the publishing industry.

Hopefully something will break and modern, relevant content will become cheap and ubiquitous, everybody will get paid, nobody will go broke, and happy smiles and fuzzy bunnies for everybody, right? right? yeaaaaahh.
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