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Originally Posted by JSWolf
To be honest, I don't see all that many people going out and purchasing a electronic copy should a legal copy be available. But I can see people purchasing a legal copy should one have been released at the time the pbook was released.
Once the money is spent on the pbook, a lot of people don't think twice about owning the ebook. They thing that "I've paid for the content so why pay twice". But if the ebook comes out at the same time as the pbook, then people have a choice as to which to purchase. There are some books I might purchase as pbooks and some I'd purchase as ebooks. But I would have the choice to make.
A lot of the ebooks available on the darknet are books that were/are not legally available in electronic form. The need for people to scan ebooks would greatly diminish if the books were already available.
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Not buying the content twice opens the door for an interesting marketing model. You always sell the pbook and throw in the ebook. The addition of DRM is ok since you always have the pbook to fall back on. Perhaps you order the pbook and then pre-download the ebook.
Dale