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Originally Posted by Snibborg
I am afraid we are in the situation now that the record industry was in in 1999 and it seems the book publishers are destined to make the same mistakes.
By hiking the price of ebooks more people will start downloading. One famous Torrent site already has a top 100 downloaded ebooks list. Add into that a small software package that converts ebooks to whatever format you want and you are just waiting for it to happen.
I can hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth already. You ain't seen nothing yet.
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Maybe.
Don't assume the majority of the market that reads ebooks will do this. Some won't know how, and others simply won't want to be bothered.
There was a poster on MR in another thread who knows where to get the pirated versions, and how to convert them if needed. He said he simply accesses Amazon from his Kindle, picks a book, pays, downloads, and starts reading, and can do so at any time, day or night. He could get the books "free", but chooses
not to: the
convenience and simplicity of buying from Amazon is worth money to him.
Care to bet he's unique? I wouldn't.
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Dennis