Comments on: Please Don’t Feed the Monster – Why e-book price fixing isn’t the issue

By: Operation Book Deployment: The Penguin Random House Juggernaut « jareksteele

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 05:20:20 +0000

[...] States Department of (in)Justice looked up from their Kindles briefly to side with Amazon on the Agency Model lawsuit – a decision that was as patently ridiculous as the Seahawks/Packers Replacement Ref call [...]

By: From the Department of Just This « jareksteele

From the Department of Just This « jareksteele — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:21:04 +0000

[...] been sitting with the DOJ’s decision about the “anti-trust” lawsuit brought against some in the publishing industry feeling an eerily familiar feeling. I [...]

By: The Apathy and the Ecstasy « jareksteele

The Apathy and the Ecstasy « jareksteele — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 02:53:41 +0000

[...] Right now, the department of justice is proceeding with an antitrust lawsuit against several publishers and Apple over e-books. I summed this up on my last post here: http://jareksteele.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/feed-the-monster/ [...]

By: Lisa Hautly

Lisa Hautly — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:58:25 +0000

Thanks for your take on this.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:17:13 +0000

Although kinda simplistic, I can see your point regarding e-book sales. However your description of the poor “destroyed” music industry could hardly be more off base. Firstly, since there are so many musicians who now “can’t afford to make music”, could you name one influential, significant, or even well-liked band that’s had to quit the business because of digital content distribution? Me neither. Secondly, and more sadly, the producers you claim are now out of business are simply experiencing less growth due to their ham-fisted attempts to legislate profitability for a distribution model that more and more consumers no longer want. They are still very much in business and have paid an elected representative near you to endorse the next version of SOPA/CISPA/whatever else will ensure they don’t have to innovate ever again.

By: kriskleindienst

kriskleindienst — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:28:10 +0000

Well what I said was, Life doesn’t move towards a happy ending, it just moves along. But anyway, this is a sizzling hot commentary and I couldn’t agree with it more.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:53:04 +0000

Almost perfect, but I think you’re being a bit unfair to Amazon. I mean their model isn’t to sell below cost, it’s to sell for pennies above cost and then browbeat the publishers into lowering the price that Publishers charge Amazon, so Amazon can make a profit. Because that is so much better than using our entire industry as a loss leader, devaluing the price of books in the minds of consumers, refusing to pay sales tax, and basically being all around evil. You do simplify things nicely for the consumer, who likely has no idea what’s going on, just that big bad publishers and Apple are conspiring to make them pay more for ebooks. Because you know the cost for ebooks should be so much less than physical books, because they’re not made from paper. Sorry this whole DOJ fiasco has made me rather grumpy.