SubscribeHarry Potter and Controlled Releases
Posted in Publishing, Long Tail, Internet, News on August 9th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
The Spanish language version of the latest Harry Potter book will be released later on this year…the official one anyways. According to TechCrunch, a fan translated version of the book can be found on the net right now.
The industry uses region codes and DRM on DVD’s. People crack them open and release them on the Internet. For TV series consumers used to have to wait for tightly controlled international release dates. Today people capture TV contents, subtitle them and release them just a few hours after they’ve been broadcasted, or even before that. Not surprisingly, books aren’t the exception.
It would seem that if it can be digitalized, any non pro-consumer “features” and barriers will be overcome until willingly or not content creators end up giving the consumer what it wants when it wants it. How can a content producer make money out of this? It might not be perfect, but iTunes, for example, is everything but bankrupt.
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