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Originally Posted by stonetools
Er, my point was never that inhibited sales: my point was that large scale casual sharing would happen in the absence of DRM and make it unprofitable for publishers and authors.
So far I have seen no convincing argument that it won't happen, and plenty of evidence from the music industry that it will.
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If dropping DRM doesn't inhibit sales, who cares about casual sharing?
with DRM: I sell 100 copies, 100 people read it
without DRM: I sell 100 copies, 1,000 people read it
I see the same income either way, but I have a potentially larger audience for my next book without DRM.
Your argument can only make sense if you
are arguing that dropping DRM will inhibit sales.
The evidence from the music industry is that dropping DRM did
not inhibit sales.