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Originally Posted by stonetools
Well you hit it on the head . Its one thing to pass around a book to household members or a friend. Is a whole nother ball game when I buy an ebestseller, keep the original, and email a copy to 25 of my Facebook friends, who email copies to THEIR friends, and so on.
I think even the most anti DRM person in the world might understand why an author or publisher may be concerned about that.
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Ummm.. But you quoted a publishing executive up-thread who stated that the DRM'd books *are not* showing up on the darknet, just scanned paper books.
Could you or the publishers provide some data about the amount of casual lending of ebooks? My experience is pretty small, but my circle of friends don't generally share ebooks. Paper on the other hand is different. And yes I understand that digital copies are easy to duplicate multiple times.