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Andrew I get the distinct feeling that if you have lived 100 years ago you would have been shilling for the horse and buggy people saying those new-fangled automobiles would NEVER catch on. That people would ALWAYS stick with their tried and true horse and buggy.
Now I am not rash enough to say what WILL happen but it doesn't take overwhelming computer savvy to type "Book Name epub torrent" in google. But the main point of this thread best I could tell was about e-book profits not future predictions. And I don't CARE what the bulk of people think or don't think the price of e-books. As long as the e-books are at what I feel to be too high a price I won't be buying many if any of them. I really don't think I am the only person that feels this way. So I think publishers are gaining short term profits but losing long term repeat business.
If people ARE too lazy to do a simple Google search then publishers certainly don't need to cripple their e-book releases with drm. But virtually all of them ARE using drm so I suspect they do think people know how to do a search...So if they can do a search then the question is what drives them to do a search. The answer I think goes back to my concerns of e-books being overpriced, not even getting into the books people in other countries can't buy solely because they are in another country.
Sorry, I just don't see sticking their heads in the sand and pretending nothing has changed or is going to change as being a viable position for publishers.
Only time will tell. But when technology changes things tend to change. It doesn't happen overnight but it does usually happen.
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