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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Bottom line, we can't rationalize away piracy. The only thing that can be done is to make piracy undesirable, so people won't want to be bothered doing it in significant numbers. And the best way to do that is to make products available in an easy and reasonable package, so people won't think twice about just buying them.
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That's pretty much what Amazon have done with their Kindle. They made it easy to buy (no computer needed, ready to read within a few seconds of bying), at the sort of prices that make it pointless spending time looking for free copies (at least for the publishers who understand the problem ...).
JA Konrath did an experiment on piracy a few months ago, he said it didn't affect his Kindle sales in any way. I think the reason for that is more to do with Amazon than anything else.