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So you're saying that DRM protects the industry because it prevents the age-old habit of passing a book along to your co-workers, who then pass it around the office until half the staff decide they're going to buy the next one?
Please note, Baen encourages casual sharing; and they are on record as making more money from eBooks than from Canada: and as someone who has managed a bookstore in Canada, I can say that Canadians spend more per capita on books than Americans.
DRM neither prevents lost sales nor increases sales.
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This has really been done to death on the other thread. I really think you should just re-read it. We're not talking about passing a book to your office mate, we're talking about sharing your ebook with all your Facebook friends (and having them share their ebooks with you). That's not passing a book around the office. it ain't the same game, it ain't the same ballpark, it aint the same league, it aint even the same sport.
REad this link and the comments please:
http://www.idealog.com/blog/what-the...n-of-the-cloud
Also this :
http://www.idealog.com/blog/drm-may-...-protect-sales
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Robyn, I agree that the word-of-mouth generated by sharing has value. I
agree that casual sharing can stimulate sales. The question is whether it
will stimulate more sales than it will cost. I believe that with a big name
branded writer, the risk of lost sales is substantial and real. And I can
see that for somebody trying to build an audience, the equation right now
would be different. But right now, half the sales or more for just about all
successful writers are print and for many it is 70 or 80 percent. When the
lion's share of sales are digital for all writers, and that day is not far
off, the situation will be quite different.
I wish we didn't live in a world (and in a country) where so much pride is
taken by so many people in getting things cheap or free. But that's where we
are. If I know that any book a friend has could be given to me for free
without the friend giving up her owhn copy, I'd never buy one the friend has
and expect them never to have to buy one I have. I could see little groups
forming that just forwarded every ebook purchase to everybody else in the
group.
It *might not* be a total disaster, I agree. But I find it difficult to see
how anybody can assure me that it won't be.
Mike
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The writer consults for the publishing industry. I haven't seen anybody respond effectively to his questions, either on the thread or here at this forum. See if you can give it a shot.