La revista The Millions publica una entrevista con un pirata de libros, una persona que escanea e incluso vuelve a cotejar los contenidos para evitar errores.
Los autores y empleados en una editorial han de ver en un individuo como éste la encarnación del Anticristo. Pero tiene un punto importante en cuanto a lo que se 'pierde':
1) With digital copies, what is "stolen" is not as clear as with physical copies. With physical copies, you can assign a cost to the physical product, and each unit costs x dollars to create. Therefore, if the product is stolen, it is easy to say that an object was stolen that was worth x dollars. With digital copies, it is more difficult to assign cost. The initial file costs x dollars to create, but you can make a million copies of that file for no cost. Therefore, it is hard to assign a specific value to a digital copy of a work except as it relates to lost sales.
También le preguntaron cuáles serían los factores y cambios en la industria editorial que deberían lograrse para que dejara de difundir textos en formatos digitales:
This is a tough question. I guess if every book was available in electronic format with no DRM for reasonable prices ($10 max for new/bestseller/omnibus, scaling downwards for popularity and value) it just wouldn’t be worth the time, effort, and risk to find, download, convert and load the book when the same thing could be accomplished with a single click on your Kindle. Even in this situation, I would probably still grab a book if I stumbled across the file and thought it might interest me - or if I wanted to check it out before buying a paper copy.
¿Qué editorial importante en México cuenta con un servicio robusto de e-books? Entonces no pregunten porqué los libros en las carreras universitarias y otras se fotocopian.
Enlace: Confessions of a Book Pirate
Los autores y empleados en una editorial han de ver en un individuo como éste la encarnación del Anticristo. Pero tiene un punto importante en cuanto a lo que se 'pierde':
1) With digital copies, what is "stolen" is not as clear as with physical copies. With physical copies, you can assign a cost to the physical product, and each unit costs x dollars to create. Therefore, if the product is stolen, it is easy to say that an object was stolen that was worth x dollars. With digital copies, it is more difficult to assign cost. The initial file costs x dollars to create, but you can make a million copies of that file for no cost. Therefore, it is hard to assign a specific value to a digital copy of a work except as it relates to lost sales.
También le preguntaron cuáles serían los factores y cambios en la industria editorial que deberían lograrse para que dejara de difundir textos en formatos digitales:
This is a tough question. I guess if every book was available in electronic format with no DRM for reasonable prices ($10 max for new/bestseller/omnibus, scaling downwards for popularity and value) it just wouldn’t be worth the time, effort, and risk to find, download, convert and load the book when the same thing could be accomplished with a single click on your Kindle. Even in this situation, I would probably still grab a book if I stumbled across the file and thought it might interest me - or if I wanted to check it out before buying a paper copy.
¿Qué editorial importante en México cuenta con un servicio robusto de e-books? Entonces no pregunten porqué los libros en las carreras universitarias y otras se fotocopian.
Enlace: Confessions of a Book Pirate