Thread: There's a better way to beat the ebook pirates
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Old 04-27-2011, 10:54 AM   #352
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Originally Posted by Piper_ View Post
Yes.

And for all the complaints about how the Internet has made it hard to control who gets a copy of an ebook, how many authors owe their ebook sales to the existence of the Internet?
I would go further than that. If it wasn't for the ebook piracy pioneers in the mid-90s nobody would have seen any profit in making a dedicated device for reading ebooks on.

And without that first device there would have been no Kindle store, no Sony store, none of the traditional booksellers jumping into the ebook market. Not to mention there would be no opportunity for scum like me to find an audience through Smashwords or Feedbooks, etc.

And yet despite apparent widespread ebook piracy, legitimate ebook sales are still rising at a phenomenal rate. So where's the problem?
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