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Originally Posted by CommonReader
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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Sure it
can happen. As far as I'm aware, Project Gutenberg works on scanners, so it's certainly
possible. The difference is, with a paper book, it's non-trivial. With an e-book, once you've got the DRM stripped, copying takes seconds or minutes, and are there any DRM formats that
haven't been cracked yet? It's no longer a question of the availability of the technology. The only barriers are the users' knowledge of where to find the solution, and the technological ability to apply it.