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Originally Posted by stonetools
I honestly don't think pirates give a damn WHAT publishers do to promote ebooks. They want the price of ebooks to be zero and will steal from the author if it is above zero. THE END.
Your suggestions bear merit, but you should understand THAT.
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I think there are two main different types of piracy, and feel it is important to differentiate between them. The type that I think you are referring to, is a bit like background noise or radiation - it will always be there, despite efforts to minimise it. Whereas the type of piracy that I am referring to, could - in my view at least - mostly be easily avoided, if publishers took the appropriate actions. Of course, there will always be losses from piracy - that's obvious - but publishers seem to be making matters worse for themselves by upsetting the people who they should be looking after, the very people who would very likely actually pay for their product, if only it was priced more reasonably, didn't include DRM and wasn't geo-restricted.
Addendum
Some people who buy e-books strip the DRM. I imagine they might be inclined to buy more e-books if they didn't have to undergo that inconvenience. Clearly publishers lose business whenever people choose to not buy e-books which include DRM. Presumably they believe that including DRM prevents greater losses as a result of piracy.