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Old 01-08-2011, 07:26 AM   #56
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Originally Posted by bhartman36 View Post
The problem is that non-DRM'ed e-books are trivially easy to copy, while paper books aren't. This makes it very tempting for publishers to stick with paper books, and resist converting paper to e-books with all their might.
There are plenty of books available as ebooks that were only sold as paper books. While it takes more time to copy, ocr and proofread the copy of a paper book than to simply break the DRM the barrier doesn't seem to be too high.
Natascha Kampusch's "3096 Days" (the Austrian girl who was kidnapped and held captive for 3096 days) was a bestseller in Germany last year. The publisher didn't publish it as an ebook and guess what happened? The book was available as epub all over the net. The same seems to happen with scientific textbooks.
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