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Clay Futures
posted by Rob on December 3, 2009 07:25 AM
There's an interesting essay by Clay Shirky on local bookstores and the ways in which they may need to evolve in order to survive here.
"If you had to choose between buying books only offline or only online, the choice that maximizes the number of ideas in circulation is unambiguously clear."
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Hasn't he missed the point that predatory pricing is bad for *every* industry? It's unfair competition, plain and simple.
Posted by: George Stirling on December 4, 2009 10:37 AM
I think Clay makes a great point, here.
No sense bitching about the market changing when there's better mileage in adapting to it.
I would apply the same principle to file-sharing. Music download retailers' time would be better spent in trying to offer something different, unique, special to their customers, rather than crying 'pirate' at the nerarest share site. How can they make their service more attractive, how can they make that transaction with the customer more than just a point-and-click?
Posted by: Wayne Simmons on December 4, 2009 08:16 PM