Thread: Book piracy: Less DRM, more data
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Old 01-13-2011, 12:12 AM   #46
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Originally Posted by Steven Lake View Post
Wow, someone with a head on their shoulders. What's this world coming to? Hopefully this catches on with the other big guys.
We can hope but I dont see it happening any time soon. In the first paragraph it was said that this experiment was conducted and he tried to get other publishers to do it but they refused. Its almost as if they dont want to truly know whether or not piracy benefits them. Its much easier for them to sit there and call it 'lost sales' then to actually find out whether it is or is not.

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Originally Posted by GA Russell View Post
I wonder, for example, how many $4.99 eBooks are pirated.
I would assume a whole lot less than ones priced over the price of the paperback. There will always be pirates but why pirate a cheap book when you can just buy it? Now if its overpriced thats a whole different story.

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Originally Posted by Belle2Be View Post
I don't think they are ever going to be released officially electronically, she seems pretty adamant about it, I do find it funny(ironic?) that it didn't stop it from being pirated.
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/11...ter-books.html
I thought she finally agreed to make them, what happened?

If theyre looking at piracy so much why dont they take a moment and look at back catalogs? Why dont they look at all the books that have yet to be made into ebooks that people have scanned and put online? Books that people keep requesting for Kindle? Why dont they hop on that bandwagon and give the customers what they want instead of wasting time complaining about piracy?
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