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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
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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There is an element of that, though the people who will actually go looking for a $2 ebook to download for free were never going to buy it anyway. Mostly it is down to convenience and awareness of the product itself. I think Amazon has got this about right, but so have a lot of the unauthorised content providers, and they have already had years to build up their userbase.
If/when ebook readers become mainstream, most of the new users will turn to Amazon or similar for their content, just like the late adopters of mp3 players turned to Itunes. It doesn't really matter what everyone else does.