Review: This is a very good write-up on what happened over the past three years to the eBook market.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2013
This book lays out the problems with the creation of a **new** industry & the disruptions that it can cause to older established systems. I think that the most important point within the book is when the publishers caved in to the FEDs. One was quoted as basically saying that the potential fines were greater than the total net worth of the company & they had no choice but to fold. Such is the power of a government agency with unlimited resources and a really big stick!Were Apple & the publishers at fault? You be the judge. Personally, they were all trying to survive in a brutally new market that was destroying the old print market. Think not, look at the casualties over the past years as the traditional book stores were put out of business by the big chains, then the big chains were forced into near collapse themselves by the rise if Internet book selling and then eBooks.Personally, I feel that I need those publishers as a vehicle to provide the books that I read. Additionally, the authors need to receive a decent compensation to write those books, or they and their books won't exist at any price. Where is the sweet spot where everybody, authors, publishers, print & eBook sellers, and customers come out whole? I don't know. On the other hand, I personally believe that the Dept. of Justice may have made matters worse.