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Originally Posted by wgrimm
Given that the population that regularly buys books is a much smaller one than that which regularly buys music, well, this doesn't seem to be a strategy that will lead to market success.
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And that's the crux of this whole "piracy" matter.
For literally hundreds of years, customers have been able to pay and own a copy of some content. We pay for a book and we own that book - forever - and can read that book again and again - forever.
The content owners (not necessarily authors) have never liked this. They do not want consumers to ever own a copy. They want consumers to pay every time they want to enjoy the content. They only want consumers to rent content.