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Originally Posted by craig8128
It seems to me that, pragmatically, the ebook sellers need to figure out the "sweet spot" in pricing for an ebook -- where that's a price plus ease-of-process that (for most people) beats searching for a pirated version. This "spot" won't be the same for everyone, but if you can come up with something that works for 80% of the population, you've really got something.
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Though your point seems logical... I've sold ebooks at $2- $3, and they've still ended up in torrent lists. The fact is, actual price doesn't matter... it seems any price at all is enough reason for someone, somewhere, to torrent a book.
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Originally Posted by craig8128
I think that the ebook sellers should emphasize that they're providing a quality product. I don't know how many of you have actually *looked* at any of the ebooks that're out there in torrent-land, but a surprising number of them are junk: no formatting, or OCR'ed by someone who never bothered to inspect the output.
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Some of the worse formatting errors you've described have turned up in backlist ebooks sold by major publishers, who farm out scan-and-OCR of old books and don't bother proofing (or maybe proof only the first 1/4 - 1/3 of a book, making it look good in previews). I've sent 3 books back for refunds, and got them, as the shoddy condition of the book was obvious. If the major publishers want to fight the public's use of torrents, they need to do more than
say they sell a quality product... they have to
actually sell a quality ebook product.