The fact of e-books being attractive to publishers and publishing trade does not outweigh the fact of e-books being broken along with e-pub. The conventional mind dictates that a broken thing must be fixed. But, first in order to fix something you must distinguish what are the problems. The problems with e-pub are numerous, but here are just a few and answers to the complications.
The digitization of book has been great as of late to the publishing business, but it has its various challenges. One of them is DRM which stands for digital rights management and also piracy. Does rights for digital works stop people from stealing? Cory Doctorow suggest that digital rights management does nothing and in article Freekonomics Doctorow pays homage to the ideas of a economic scholar and leading publisher Tim O' Reilly. O'Reilly describes this as "piracy's progressive taxation," which means some profit is taken of the top, but for the most there is a wealth of product for money to be made for publisher. As far as piracy it is the concerned the doctorate candidates data shows that pirated materials help in net sales music which can also be translated into dividends for e-books. The suggestion of Doctorow, Michael Jensen to stop piracy is give away some items for free. In most cases Jensen exclaims people police the items that are stolen on the internet and tell company. Even when one problem is met with a possible solution more arise.
One other fiasco with e-books is the sometimes attempting of purchase with ease on certain sites. The problem catergorizing e-books. The are suppose to come with metadata of information about the book and is sometimes not available. An one of the most avoidable problem is various text languages, but is due to competitiveness and a need to innovation in a crowded market. One uniform standard for e-book language is needed to give publishers one choice to format e-book. Open standards such markup text (XML, HTML) should automatically be put up for e-book readability. The open standards are good for engineering ideas, and community standards should be used for e-books. The discrepency lies in proprietary standards such as PDF and Java and that vie for stiff hold on market share for e-books being understood in the companies that produced e-code. To solve this jumble of massive e-text being used about for e-books, it should be an all war like as of late Blu-Ray and Hi-Def DVD. The winner of the DVD battle was Sony Blu-Ray. Now Sony's product is the standard format for high definition digital disc. The same can be afforded to happen in the publishing industry and of course to the victor go the spoils. This will only lighten the load of the brokenness of e-books and e-pub.
In close the attractiveness of the unmature segment of electronic publishing is what keeps the publishers interested. But to mature to full potential it must be nurtured and guided into full adulthood. The future will be only worked out by idealist and publishers willing to fix this teenage outbreak of problems.
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