Thanks for making such a key point - the role of fear, uncertainty, greed and stupidity in motiviation decision-making in the rightholder sector cannot be underestimated...
At the same time, it'd be interesting to explore further quite how incomplete data from publishers about eBooks is. To my knowledge, they just cover their own sales, not those of self-publishers or indies. This can end up being a justification for downplaying the need for proper guarantees for libraries around eBooks. Of course, their own pisspoor offer may also be supressing demand, just like it did on TDM in Europe...
Sounds a little like the business model of collective management organisations, especially those where the link between royalties received and monies paid out is tenuous or completely broken?
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... but are publisher statistics telling the whole story?
Thanks for making such a key point - the role of fear, uncertainty, greed and stupidity in motiviation decision-making in the rightholder sector cannot be underestimated...
At the same time, it'd be interesting to explore further quite how incomplete data from publishers about eBooks is. To my knowledge, they just cover their own sales, not those of self-publishers or indies. This can end up being a justification for downplaying the need for proper guarantees for libraries around eBooks. Of course, their own pisspoor offer may also be supressing demand, just like it did on TDM in Europe...
CMOs on steroids?
Sounds a little like the business model of collective management organisations, especially those where the link between royalties received and monies paid out is tenuous or completely broken?