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I believe the level of the darknet ebook traffic is going to increase.
There are two reasons.
1. Because Kindle is so famous and more people are learning about ebook readers and buy them, there will be more people who realise that they cannot read what they do want to read - on the very expensive ebook reader they bought (as I mentioned before, there are so many books that you cannot buy in ebook format such as Glean Cook - Black Company, Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time, Steven Erikson - Malazan Book of the Fallen and many more). After paying a lot of money for the reader and being hooked to it and realising just too later about it, people will turn to the darknet.
Mind you, the reason is not - money. They would love to pay money for the books they would like to read but they will not be able to.
2. The more people buy ebook readers, the faster will grow a number of people who, until today, are blissfully unaware of all the problems that DRM introduce. When they switch reading devices in 1-2 year time or any other situation when they are going to encounter DRM related problems and realise they cannot read books they bought 1-2 years ago for their well-earned money....they are going to get a little bit upset...
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