Comments on: TOCFrankfurt, now with controversy

By: Philip Jones

Philip Jones — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:43:50 +0000

Eoin, in the interests of full disclosure, our follow-up piece is here with Andrew’s comments in full: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/100371-savikas-responds-to-toc-criticism.html

By: eoinpurcell

eoinpurcell — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:14:41 +0000

Hello Philip,

I’m sorry that it seems that way, I really am. Perhaps I am being unfair and more then likely I am talking only to people who had a generally positive view, but I’m not quite sure what people expect from the event.

It was only a day long and, for Europe, was a fairly new event. Had the program been longer, I imagine there would have been greater room for stringer voices on DRM advocacy.

Even saying that though, George Walkley delivered a pretty good defence of DRM and copyrights during his Pech Kucha speech.

Eoin

By: philip

philip — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:08:09 +0000

Of course, as ever shoot the messenger . . . I’ve spoken to a number of people about the conference and they say it didn’t work within the context of Frankfurt. We don’t take quotes out of context, and we don’t “spice up” comments to fill a hole as you suggest. Andrew Savikas has his say in response in full in tomorrow’s Frankfurt Daily. So yes let’s debate this, but let’s not pretend there isn’t a fundamental division in publisher attitude to drm appearing, with TOC very much leaning one way, and trade publishers suggesting that another approach might also be worth hearing.