Thread: New poll: What do you think of DRM
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Old 04-20-2010, 06:13 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53 View Post

Yeah, will have you read some of the posts here from people who claim, presumably with a straight face, that getting their e-books free from pirate sites instead buying the book DRM'ed or not, is not hurting the authors or publishers a bit. .
That would be because it isn't. Most downloads will be spur of the moment impulse, and only downloaded because they are free. Do you really think that someone is going to rush out and buy 3,000 scifi books new retail if they can't download them for free?

Even if it was something they actually wanted to read, at best your ebook would be competing with either a second hand paperback from ebay or a trip to the library -- neither of which you will profit from (UK authors get a few pence from the library, up to a very small maximum per year, publishers get nothing).

If they were going to pay hardback prices to read a book they would have bought the hardback as soon as it came out.
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