Piracy is progressive taxation.
- For most authors, their enemy is obscurity, not piracy. Piracy benefits the little guy and is an irritant to the big guys
- For publishers, piracy is a manageable cost of doing business, like shoplifting. It doesn’t kill the business — Microsoft is profitable despite warez newsgroups
- Customers will pay for good digital distribution; O’Reilly’s Safari is an example
- In the world of digital distribution there will still be a role for publishers and distributors. For reasons of math and marketing, intermediaries will emerge to bridge the gap between millions of buyers and millions of sellers
And more great stuff.