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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Or publishers will serve that market *and*people will get content from the darknet. Like music. Exactly like music.
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So what? People also steal paper books. Never heard that as an argument against selling books. As a publisher you will either make some money selling ebooks while some people will download pirated books - or you will make no money at all from ebooks because you don't sell them and people will get pirated stuff all the same.
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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Maybe. If publishers made no, say, German-language e-books available, I doubt that they would lose any noticeable amount of business simply due to the complexity of scanning and uploading books. It's much easier to just strip DRM from an already existing e-book.
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You keep repeating yourself. The very fact that there are huge numbers of books available that were never published as ebooks flatly contradicts your assertion.
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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
1. It has been *asserted* that the growth of the ebook market does not compare favorably to the increase in sales. It has not been demonstrated at all. Show me the evidence that more than 3 times as many people own e-book readers now than did one year ago. Keep in mind that many people own multiple devices capable of reading e-books (I do), and that most people who buy an iPad don't use it to read books.
2. At some point, of course, e-book sales will level off, and the sales-per-reader number may decline. I haven't seen any evidence that this has happened yet, and I'm not even sure how meaningful this number is: there's certainly no reason to assume that people with e-book readers will all buy the same number of books.
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Kindly do your own swot work. I fail to see any hard data that supports your assertions.