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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
My point is that publishers *could* give up on e-books. German e-books make up less than 1% of the market. The larger number of illicit e-books is a reason *to* give up the market, not a reason they *can't* give up the market. And since a pirated book doesn't automatically equate to a lost sale, there's no way of knowing how many people who found books on the darknet would have paid for the book if available legally.
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The number of devices that can be used as readers is growing explosively; besides ebook readers there are iPads, Android tablets, smart phones etc.. Publishers will either serve that market or people will get their content from the darknet. They will not shrug their shoulders and remain with paper books just because the publishers refuse to serve the market. Publishers will earn some money selling ebooks or they will see reduced revenue because people will increasingly get their books illegally.
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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
No. Price is *not* obviously important. That's the point that you and your fellow posters don't seem to get, despite all the evidence. Price (meaning the prices charged for e-books now) doesn't seem to matter.
That's what the evidence shows, clearly. I thought that price was going to be important, too, and that agency pricing would strangle the market. But, as I keep saying, the market tripled in one year, despite the fact that the cost of bestselling agency books went up 20-50%. This shows that, within broad ranges, price doesn't really matter, and suggests that the vast majority of e-book readers seem to regard e-books like paper books, and will pay paper book prices for them
Yes.
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As has been pointed out already the growth of the ebook market does not compare favourably to the sales figures of reading devices (as far as these figures are known). That's despite the fact that such devices have been mostly bought by people from higher income groups up to now.