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Originally Posted by Xenophon
My uncle was on Wiley's Board of Directors* when they changed over to DRM-free. He tells me that as they converted publications from DRM to no-DRM, they saw step-wise increases of paper sales shortly afterwards for each book so converted. That's right, PAPER sales measurably UP shortly after the bits became no-DRM. At the same time, eSales went from insignificant to "enough to care about." Note that this was pre-Kindle. All I know post-Kindle is that they're still think that piracy isn't a problem -- I have no idea what data they use to make that determination, however.
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Thanks, that's a hopeful sign. Maybe other publishers will follow their lead. I notice though that all three of those publishers are in the scientific, and technical fields, not areas that would seem to be hotspots for piracy, unlike Baen's catalog of popular sci-fi and fantasy books. Perhaps that makes a difference, maybe not.