Paulo Coelho has shown that giving away intellectual content for free helps boost sales and in the end help boost profits. It is a matter of visibility: a product has to be visible before people will want to buy it. DRM and unreasonable pricing both are obstacles to visibility and ultimately hurt profits.
Nude buttocks may cost ABC $1.4 million - Yahoo! News
Now I can sleep peacefully knowing that the FCC is hard at work preventing asses from getting on TV. Hmm… wait! How come Fox News is still broadcasting?
Hubert Guillaud noted in a post titled Perplexité des éditeurs face au numérique that a study reports that book publishers still do not know how to handle the digital revolution. (The actual study is a pdf file.) I will here quote two passages of the study and offer my reaction.
By and large, professors [...]
