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Originally Posted by stonetools
Whatever, dude. You have no statistical evidence whatsover that going without DRM would NOT result in lost sales through large scale casual sharing. Given the example of the music industry, there is every reason to believe that it WOULD result in a collapse in revenue. Based on those facts, for the publishing industry to go without DRM would be a leap of faith- a leap of faith based on the digerati's unsupported belief that "this won't the hurt the publishing industry-honest injun. And did you know that DRM is really annoying? "
I find the digerati's willingness to gamble the livelihood of authors and publishers on an unsupported theory just because it 's inconvenient to them quite callous and self centered, to be honest.
But then that's me . Apparently the digerati are quite willing to gamble on the livelihood of others.
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How many times have
you had your job outsource and/or offshored...without a look back by the decision makers?
You seem to think the publishers and authors aren't subject to the winds of creative destruction, unlike the rest of us in the OEDC...
I freely admit I don't have any numbers in DRM vs lost sales, particularly in the world of "best sellers". Neither do you. All I have is comments by several genre authors (particularly Eric Flint, who publicly gave out his numbers both p-book and e-book), which didn't show any drop in sales over time without DRM as compared to a title or two with DRM. But that's anecdotal, I agree. But you don't have anything but an opinion, backed by nothing more that other opinions of like-minded people. No numbers, no anecdotal evidence, no nothing. You mat get away with such sloppy thinking in your profession circle, but not here. We've been mulling this question on this site for at least 5 years.