Originally posted by: deejagi
Guys I am not against web series but I love the books as printed version than kindle version. Just imagine how many people in print industry and support industry loose jobs if people stop buying books to save the rack space in their house. Yes it is worth while you are away from your library but not when you are in your place. This is also becomes like TRP. If there are limited readers, how do you expect writers to publish books. Every publisher expect the investment back with marginal profit. No one runs charity or social services.
Again everyone are not fortunate to own tablet, and other gadgets. Many even in this era still depends on TV for their entertainment. So just because someone does watch serial on TV doesn't become less intellectual.
There is nothing wrong in watching serial on TV. it is the absolute insistence on a system of TRP that few users taste decides and in this case looks like rural more than urban that is the subject of discussion here. So I must watch at a particular time if my show is to stay on air. Well screw that. If the channel wants to operate on old fashioned ways, they can be stuck there. I am from the US, so my taste does not matter but channel wants my money ? Well take a hike, starplus or anyone. I will take my toys in this case gadgets and watch Korean, Turkish, Paki, US shows. I will subscribe to channels that give good shows that are according to my taste and are available according to my time. I don't want to pirate, I want to pay. But I want good shows I am willing to pay for. The world is wide, I am not going to be held hostage by any channel just because a show I like is on it.
@Bold when I was a kid, there was a video rental company called Blockbuster. There was one practically every signal. I think each rental was $3.99 or $4.00. For every family I knew renting a video on a Friday for the latest release English movie was a ritual. But you have to return on time or else they had these fees like $3.00 a day I think. Their fine policy was terrible. People always paid so much in fines. There were not many choices in number of movies, you had to drive further if you wanted to rent the movie. But they could not do much as there was no choice. Then something happened. A small web company started that would send DVDs in the mail. You order online, they would send it in the mail. You finish it and pop it back in the mail. No fines. No late fees. No driving. This company did not stream anything then just sent DVDs in the mail. But this model decimated the video rental store Blockbuster. The biggest reason they went down was they were greedy for the fines. That little company that started small with just sending DVDs in the mail is the now powerful Netflix.
Amazon started as a small company exclusively selling books. When I was a kid again, there were bookstores like Borders and Barnes and Nobles. I love bookstores. I have happy memories of going for Harry Potter and Twilight books launch parties. Dressing up, standing in line for hours. But these books were expensive. Snooty store employees who won't help. Non availability of books. Amazon came and the books were cheaper, for $25 you had free shipping. This was way before Prime. People started buying books from them. Book stores closed. Borders closed and Barnes and Nobles is struggling. Now with Amazon I can send gifts to my relatives in Canada, UK, India just by going to the amazon website in that country and choosing stuff. The product is shipped locally. No paying shipping fees. That is an advantage for me.
Do I feel guilty ? Absolutely not. Business evolves. I am going to pay for what I consider quality and each of us gets to define that. Just because huge corporations rack up price of a book I will not pay. I am going to pay for Kindle and audiobooks. An entire generation of kids one generation younger than me is growing up on audio books. They use them to go to sleep, on car rides, as a background when they play. Books will be a part of their lives, just not paper books.
Change is always there. From the industrial age people are losing jobs because of automation or technology. That is the way the world works.
Edited by Mangothyme - 7 years ago
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