It's all over but the crying

I just got done reading Joe Konrath and Barry Eisler's response to Scott Turow's statements regarding Amazon and traditional publishing.  If you haven't seen it go here.  Scott spouted nonsensical statements like a sprinkler without having any viable facts to back it up.  Joe and Barry basically took him apart piece by piece.  There's only one thing I would like to add- It's all over but the crying.

The bottom line is no matter who or what entity rages against the ebook revolution as well as the indie authors, there's no stopping what is taking place already.  The facts are out there if you look.  Amazon pays better and reaches more people than any of the Big 6 will ever hope to.  The Big 6 are lamenting a lost era and that's fine and dandy, let them lament.  It will do nothing to keep the people who want to purchase my book from doing so.  The public hasn't even spoken, they've just shifted into buying what Amazon's selling and no amount of whining is going to change it. 

So there's really no need to take apart the diatribe that you hear on the internet or read in the paper because all they're doing is trying to call the snow back up the mountain after the avalanche has already begun.  It's done.  It's over.  End of story.

I'll laugh the next time I hear a representative of the Big 6, or now it seems influential members of the Author's Guild, saying anything other than positive statements about ebooks or Amazon.  I don't have time anyway, I'm too busy writing.