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Old 03-16-2011, 09:49 AM   #33
Adriaan12452
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Originally Posted by sabredog View Post
Cutting prices is a good start.

But making ebooks more accessible by doing away with geo restrictions and DRM would go a long way to eliminating casual piracy by those who are quite happy to purchase an ebook title, but cannot due to geo restrictions and non availability of that DRM'ed ebook in the format suitable for their ereader.
That would certainly help a lot. Also the prices of the ebooks should be considerably lower. Amazon charges as much, if not more, for scientific ebooks as for the real scientific books while the costs of distribution are much lower (maybe not 50% but enough).
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