Thread: Weird Economics of Ebooks?
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Old 11-18-2010, 04:29 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by elemenoP View Post
Did music piracy decrease when Apple introduced 99-cent song downloads? Any stats or articles about that?
Not that I know of. However, at least legit online music sales exist, which they did not before.

You can offer consumers your digital product without DRM and let them pay what they want (or download for free), and people will still pirate it anyway.

http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/16/rad...radiohead.html

The idea that availability or high prices "drive" people to piracy is very likely one of those things that everyone knows to be true... that turns out to not to be true at all.
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