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Originally Posted by mrkai
...that there is no evidence t support this whatsoever. New Video Games, DVDs and CDs are released every tuesday, and like I said, I found every book from all of Baen's "Big Guns" online ready to download (in multiple formats, no less) in 5 min's time.
Seems like leaving "between 10% to 25%" more cash out based what we know as opposed to what we fear is throwing money away to me... |
Completely agreed with point one above, however in all the forums I've been and where publisher representatives participate, that is what you will hear.
And similarly for authors. "What if I release this book as an e-book, and 100k people download it for free on the darknet; think how many sales I lost?" is a common refrain. That is a hard mindset to break, and only DIRE necessity (publisher going bankrupt and author in need of lots of money) forced several such authors to recant and go with drm-free e-books.
I think that only cratering p-book sales will make most publishers truly embrace e-books, and even then I expect them to fight it every step with onerous drm, high prices and the like..