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The interesting thing on Piracy...
I was reading an article the other day, and music piracy has dropped way out of the top pirated items, mostly now it's movies and tv shows.
The real reason that music piracy has dropped is that there are sensible options to buy it quickly, easily and "cheaply". Ie iTunes, or all you can eat subscription mechanisms like spotify. In a nutshell, the music industry finally realised that changing the model of their business makes it work in a e-commerce world.
Ebooks will eventually get there, they have the good store (amazon) now we just need the sensible pricing to make piracy and conversion not worth the hassle.
The main issue, is there aren't enough punters yet to make the publishers sit up and take notice, but they will get there eventually. Bring on a subscription model, £10/month all you can read off amazon? I'd buy that. Even if it meant I didn't retain any books if I cancelled my subscription.
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