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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The same holds true elsewhere. One inconclusive example is Baen Books. They offer ebook versions of everything in their catalog, plus ebooks from other publishers. Their ebooks are high quality, without the formatting and production issues others complain about from other vendors. They price very reasonably, and don't apply DRM. They're doing fine, thank you. Out of curiosity, I looked at various pirate sites. I could find all sorts of other stuff, but couldn't find Baen's selections, even though they have no DRM and would be trivial to pirate.
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Dennis
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Just as a data point, Dennis--and to show the pitfalls of assuming on short data--my Baen webscription books have been consistently and continually pirated, and even though they're finally removed from the Baen site/servers (years past when they were reverted, I might note, including one book that was put up *after* it was long reverted), they still show up. (I think I have several sites to hit with a DMCA even at the moment.)
I have never been happy with that program from an author point of view, which is not politic to say, but I think it's important to remember that appearances can be deceiving (hey, it's 5am my time, I'm gonna use cliches and make typos). I'm sure others feel differently, and have their own reasons. Mine are certainly much deeper than DRM issues.
Just one illustration of how things look unexpectedly different from the other side, sometimes.