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Originally Posted by stonetools
There will be solid results in a year or so. If there are no significant losses, I will change my mind on the issue and switch to urging publishers to abandon DRM.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
If, after going DRM free at or below their current ebook prices, TOR's ebook sales over the following year do not increase by at least 75% of the general ebook market unit increase (Or SF/Fantasy category increase if that is, by then, counted separately), I will cease to advocate for DRM free ebooks, and, indeed, I'll recommend that publishers should keep DRM on their ebooks.
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I've just noticed that there's was a half-year update on this in December 2012 from John Sargent, buried in a
release about the DOJ Lawsuit:
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This year we went DRM-free at TOR. It is still too early to tell the outcome, but initial results suggest there was no increase in piracy.
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