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Originally Posted by GA Russell
Dennis, aren't the book publishers threatening to sue pirates like the music companies have done? If so, then apparently they do care. If not, then I guess you are right, at least for the time being.
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I don't offhand know. I haven't heard about it.
They'd have fun trying, as there is no publishing industry equivalent of the RIAA or MPAA, which are the bodies trying to combat piracy in music and films.
And electronic books are still in their infancy. Right now, music and film are in digital format to begin with. When you buy a CD or DVD, you have something dead easy to rip and share. You also have a much larger market for pirated copies.
Everybody listens to music and watches films. People who read for pleasure are a much smaller subset of the market.
If I were a publisher, I'd worry about getting people to buy and read ebooks in the first place.
Then I'd worry about piracy.
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Dennis