http://fightback.org.nz/2012/09/25/paperback-books-will-be-the-death-of-us-or-how-industry-always-finds-new-technology-threatening/ Fri, 24 May 2013 11:12:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://fightback.org.nz/2012/09/25/paperback-books-will-be-the-death-of-us-or-how-industry-always-finds-new-technology-threatening/#comment-17817 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:33:55 +0000 http://workersparty.org.nz/?p=6747#comment-17817 So it is still a freemarket that works best. copyright and corporate control just creates or strengthen monopolies which deny freemarkets. Go far enough right and you become left.

]]> http://fightback.org.nz/2012/09/25/paperback-books-will-be-the-death-of-us-or-how-industry-always-finds-new-technology-threatening/#comment-17812 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 02:20:21 +0000 http://workersparty.org.nz/?p=6747#comment-17812 No. Just how wasteful an inefficient it is.
We’re better off for mass-paperback publishing, but at it’s core is a general failure to treat people as intelligent human beings, as well as the whole copyright thing (http://workersparty.org.nz/2012/04/29/copyright-as-theft/).
Yeah, it could be worse, but it could also be so much better. This could have all happened much earlier and on a much wider scale as illustrated by the scale and breadth of the distribution in the third world by progress publishers and foreign language press.
The profit motive trumps actual human needs. It’s almost accidental when they meet.

]]> http://fightback.org.nz/2012/09/25/paperback-books-will-be-the-death-of-us-or-how-industry-always-finds-new-technology-threatening/#comment-17747 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:24:18 +0000 http://workersparty.org.nz/?p=6747#comment-17747 OMG is this article saying that a capitalist free market is good and that those who seek to control or manipulate the market to maintain the status quo are bad?

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