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Old 02-02-2011, 04:49 AM   #259
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Originally Posted by lene1949 View Post
No author will be losing money for books pirated...
Perhaps fairer to say "significant amounts of money". I suspect that if commercial ebooks (in some impossible alternative reality) weren't available other than through purchase, some authors might see a few more sales.

But overall I agree. Piracy is not a significant factor, and should be ignored in terms of implementing technological measures to try to stop it.

I think it will be far more effective to tackle it by making the purchase of ebooks simpler, and encouraging social pressure against pirating ebooks.
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