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I also think its ridiculous to charge full price for a few MB of data transfer without a tangible physical book that they are shipping and selling. They are getting greedy, wanting too much for the electronic substitute. People would pay $1.99 for an e-book, and perhaps you would sell more copies and end out making more money overall. At $1.99, its not worth the hassle of piracy. At $3.99 it MIGHT not be worth the hassle of piracy if its something you want to read and you can have it faster by downloading it.
If the copyright protection slows me down and is less convenient and harder to use than the pirated copy, regardless of price I will go for the pirated copy because the additional effort of the protection takes away the joy of reading. Even without lowering prices, a less invasive form of protection would serve them by not pissing people off. Ive seen people delete their copyright books and download the illegal version, even after paying for it, because the copyright version is less desirable......I dont really know how that works because I dont buy books, but rumor has it that sometimes copyright protection can be a chore.....I know this is true with games that use the STEAM engine on Windows and Linux. The pirated version requires less effort to set up than the legally purchased version. Thats backwards. The stuff you pay for needs to be more convenient, not less convenient.
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