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Stone, I'm getting really tired of this. We were having an interesting and productive discussion before you jumped in. I was actually enjoying your absence. We've heard your "the publishers are always right, and you pathetic little consumers should just thank us for allowing you to pay inflated prices for whatever we choose to sell you" line time and time again, and it makes no more sense this time.
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Well, I love you too. And I believe that YOU engaged ME. I'm responding to YOUR comment on MY post. I most certainly don't believe that publishers are always right. I just believe that the digerati are more wrong.
Don't like the term "digerati"? Well, I could try "tech utopians" or "anti DRM true believers" but you wouldn't like those either, I bet. How about "DRM opponents".
As to what you did say, I wasn't the only one who concluded that you were saying that piracy couldn't affect sales, etc. How about you restate your argument more simply? Apparently, everyone else misunderstood it the way I did.
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If you make it easy to buy an ebook, people will do that a lot. Make it difficult, and they will do it less.
So what are the publishers doing? They're making it difficult. They lock their ebooks with DRM and prevent people from using them -- at least once a week we get someone here who, unknowingly, bought a book from Amazon for their Nook, or some other combination.
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Let me put it bluntly. Its damn easy to buy an ebook- so easily that millions of non-digerati (whoops, average users) have bought ereaders recently and are buying ebooks at an accelerating rate. Most remain blissfully unaware that there is even such a thing as DRM and are instead focused on the ease, convenience and lower prices of ebooks. These consumers seem to be OK with device in compatibility and an inability to easily violate the copyright of the authors they read ( what you falsely call "sharing"). Maybe those consumers are more realistic than the DRM opponents. Ever considered that?