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Originally Posted by GA Russell
For the past few years, a company called Big Champagne has determined how many (and the identity of) music tracks/files are swapped among pirates. It sells this information to the record companies, who then use it to prove to disc jockeys, etc., that the song is popular.
Perhaps Big Champagne will one day provide the same service to the publishers, who can then better determine their most advantageous price points.
I suspect that many here who complain about price gouging believe that the publishers would make more money by selling more copies of eBooks at a lower price.
It appears to me that many of the publishers' statements that I have read here in the past year do not have the ring of truth. For example, the price of eBooks will come down when the hardcopy is available in paperback. Or what we have here, that the eBook costs three cents more because of the cost of conversion.
I believe that, over time, the more consumers think they are being lied to, the more there will be who will pirate.
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that would be very interesting to watch if there were an ebook counterpart