First, there is no distinction for me between physical versus data. They're both books. People have been buying them in one form or another for four hundred something years. They're a stable and proven form of business, even if the format and brickfront is different, the game's still mostly the same.
I think the key here is that you're talking to someone who is far more a capitalist than a cultural outsider, so I find the entire issue of attitude and subculture to be entirely academic. For me, they're not part of business. Either you have a service or product that people are willing to pay for at a price that intersects with the price you're willing to sell at... or you don't. Period. The rest is trappings.
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Date: 7 Oct 2011 05:01 am (UTC)I think the key here is that you're talking to someone who is far more a capitalist than a cultural outsider, so I find the entire issue of attitude and subculture to be entirely academic. For me, they're not part of business. Either you have a service or product that people are willing to pay for at a price that intersects with the price you're willing to sell at... or you don't. Period. The rest is trappings.