Thread: Ebook Price War
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Old 09-23-2012, 09:24 AM   #45
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by l_macd View Post
While the biggest majority will be people who haven't even given it a thought and don't even realise there is any potential problem for them (and indeed might never have any problem with DRM), there is quite probably a fairly sizeable number of people who own e-readers (or reading apps for their android tablets/phones) but don't buy any books and just download them from torrents etc. They don't need to bother getting tools to remove the DRM, it's only the people who buy books in the first place that need them.
Well, now...
How sizeable is sizeable?
I don't think it is all that big compared to the commercial market and it had better *not* ever get that all big.
It is hard enough fending the multinationals fake "piracy is killing us" stories when piracy is small, if it ever *really* becomes sizeable...

Don't think it is a good idea to be puffing up the numbers of ebook pirates.
Besides, there is plenty of legally free and cheap content to keep most of us "cheapskates" satisfied.
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