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Originally Posted by Xenophon
It's also interesting to look at the eBook usenet newsgroup's responses to people asking for pirate copies of Baen books -- "It's only 5 bucks, just BUY it you cheapskate" and "Baen is the good guys; support them, don't pirate them." This difference came about through Baen choosing to go with cheap pricing and no DRM. Jim Baen (RIP) used to say that if you treat your customers like pirates, that's what they'll act like. But if you treat them like people...
I admit that this approach might not work for the #1 NYT bestseller. On the other hand, it has worked just fine for several #5-6 NYT bestsellers. And the converters don't have to strip the DRM, because there isn't any!
Xenophon
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Let's use CDs as the medium in this case. I know others who will not pirate music CDs except for the copy protected music CDs. You remove the protection and the CDs won't be stolen. You put on the protection and if that protection can be stripped it will be stolen.
Same deal it seems with Baen ebooks since Baen is trusting us to be good and we are overall.