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Originally Posted by kennyc

That's not what you said before.

Looks the same argument to me.

That is a modern medicine fix. Treat the symptom. How about treating the cause?

Scrap geo restrictions and DRM and be realistic with pricing to attract more sales.

Encourage more people to buy ebooks rather than be turned away and seeking an alternative because they cannot purchase the ebook they want AND are happy to purchase.

The publishing industry is its own worst enemy. They could be riding on the digital age with common sense distribution models (Baen model perhaps?) instead of making it harder for ebooks to be sold. This is the reality.

You are not reading what I say or chose not to read what I say before launching the same argument.

I am NOT arguing that sellers do not have the right to selective selling, access to purchase or what price regime to set. That alone is the crux of the problem.

Try and understand that the current anachronistic distribution system contributes to the piracy problem because it does restrict whole regions from book purchase, it does charge far higher costs for ebooks when they plainly do not need to be set so high (Again, the Baen model, which works!)

Unlock all that and buyers will come back to buying ebooks, like they probably wanted to do in the first place but were prevented to.

The reading world is a different place that what it was 20 years ago and frankly, just like the entertainment industry, publishers cannot cope and will not change, despite seeing the writing on the wall requiring they need to change.