Nice Web Type details the changes and challenges type foundries are going to face once real typography comes to the web:

You really have to feel for type sellers. Their business is changing.

Until there is a web standard for type, like .webfont or a permissions table, that ensures (or encourages) the legal use of typefaces on websites, type sellers have to simultaneously:

1. Figure out how to get their fonts into web designers’ projects safely and easily, and

2. Convince those same web designers that selling type for use on the web is something they actually want to do (really!)

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