DISQUS

Crosbie Fitch · 2 years ago

Yup.

Publishers can't sell you duplication and distribution services any more because the Internet let's people share it with other at their own negligible expense.

So what brainwave do publishers have now?

They say "We know you love us really, so please, visit our website and you can keep on paying us for what you already have so we don't go out of business."

Hasn't anyone told them that it's not the duplicators and distributors that the audience loves? It's the fricking movie producers!

The audience for a digital work will queue up to pay the artist, but they will not queue up to pay the people who used to manufacture the acetates and ferry them around the country.

But, hey, iTunes works, so why not?

Put this in the shopping basket along with horoscopes, homeopathic medicines, and magnetic water softeners.

Clayton Nash · 2 years ago

With all the talk of the cost of bandwidth, we've missed the point - bandwidth is incredibly cheap. All the UK Telco's appear to have come to about the same conclusion - they would be paid around �£0.25 per movie download (or about 50 cents US) and that would have to include a profit margin. This is the only cost saving this service can realise. Transport is a vanishing cost in digital delivery.