Amazon announces availability of its platform Digital Text Platform to increase the supply of ebooks French for his Kindle in France (source: Journal du Geek ).
The compensation model proposed by Amazon seems inspired by what we find on the Apple Store for iPhone (Apple ) and the Android Market to Android (Google ): " Authors may submit their works, set prices and recover 35% of the amount of each of their sales. .
is an interesting initiative which aims to overcome the unwillingness of publishers in France and actors that revolve around a general way: authors, publishers, copyright holders, printers, booksellers, ... It is also and above all a process that aims to do so without since those would be legitimate for refuse to do it. This initiative comes in addition to that of Google who was convicted Dec. 18, 2009 for digital works without permission .
Until the French publishers (broadly defined above) will be cautious attitude towards the digitization of works , nothing much changed. The problem is that they are in an attitude of sterile opposition "until everything is not perfect, I do not move because I do not want to risk losing anything." ... The situation can not progress because too many players have too much to lose, starting with the printers and booksellers whose business itself is threatened, and that authors, publishers and rights holders are too afraid of losing part of what should be theirs!
It would be vastly preferable that all stakeholders - authors, publishers, copyright holders, printers, booksellers, ... - Adopt a more constructive attitude acknowledging that the move to digital is inevitable but that it must manage by defining what they want, what they do not want, they may the opportunities they foresee. This would allow them to work with actors like Amazon and Google to improve their proposal by identifying means necessary - in the broadest sense - to the transition to digital, by federating initiatives, coordinating actors, organizing the transition from craft trades such as printers and booksellers ...
If a pre-requisite that it will take players of publishing - authors, publishers, ... - Eventually admit is that the future will not, can not, must not be like the past. Digitize works revolutionize the practice of reading, consulting, "consumption" of works. And consequently, probably also the practices of writing ... France can not stay behind evolution, or evolution will eventually occur as parallel tracks. These are precisely the conditions of this development that Amazon is trying to put up with his initiative. And the publishing world (broadly defined) has more to lose than gain from this attitude of folds.
So much support - participate, guide and promote - the movement rather than endure it! ... French cultural exception - which we have seen the movie it was so necessary to the survival of an independent cultural expression and quality - will be even more respected ... and probably even imitated around the world.
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