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I don't see any reason that selling ebooks without DRM would have any negative effect on sales of ebooks either.
I have now provided a detailed explanation, with verifiable data, for why I don't think that selling ebooks without DRM will harm publishers or authors.
Please explain why you persist in your belief that DRM is essential.
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THank you for your serious, fact based response. At least you didn't stoop to personal attacks like some
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THere is a lot of really good data about the music business. Unforetunately , there is data that sharply contradicts your position.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- If you watched the Grammy Awards Sunday night, it would appear all is well in the recording industry. But at the end of last year, the music business was worth half of what it was ten years ago and the decline doesn't look like it will be slowing anytime soon.
Total revenue from U.S. music sales and licensing plunged to $6.3 billion in 2009, according to Forrester Research. In 1999, that revenue figure topped $14.6 billion.
Although the Recording Industry Association of America will report its official figures in the early spring, the trend has been very clear: RIAA has reported declining revenue in nine of the past 10 years, with album sales falling an average of 8% each year. Last decade was the first ever in which sales were lower going out than coming in.
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http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/02/news...dex.htm?hpt=T2
The industry insiders blame digital music for the collapse in revenue. This is substantial evidence that offering DRM free music hasn't helped things.
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The volume of unauthorized downloads continues to represent about 90% of the market, according to online download tracker BigChampagne Media Measurement.
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Faced with such data, it is far from clear that going DRM free will lead to a healthy publishing industry. You would have to explain why a similiar collapse in revenue would not happen in the publishing industry, as people got in the habit of sharing bestsellers with all their Facebook friends. Thanks in advance for your response.