Sony to blame tube sites too?

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Originally Posted by rhetorical

I think the Sony E Book model is the future of content delivery. I love it. I pay for it. I don't feel ripped off. I can share it with my wife. It makes novels and books cheap, accessible, and is a very seductive device. The publishers will do well. The latest tactic seems to be a novel that is free for thirty days. You know that has got to sell lots of hardware which in turn will sell more software, in this case, books.

I think your on to something.

We've mentioned the music industry in this thread and overlooked a recent success in pay for downloads when people said that no one would when things were for free....

iTunes.

It was said that people would never pay to download music if they could get it for free from P2P networks. However, the attraction of P2P wasn’t just the price, it was the user experience, which was something Apple understood.

Something this business could learn from.