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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
Yeah, obviously the answer for print publishers is to raise prices substantially on ebooks. They might sell one for every 20 that get pirated or borrowed from a library, so the list price needs to be around $300. DRM should be applied that prevents anyone from reading the book. Then print books will be saved.
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I appreciate the sarcasm.
But, at this point, even if *all* publishers stopped doing ebooks altogether it wouldn't make much difference. The djinn is already out of the bottle and there already is too much disintermediation and the installed base of readers and apps is too big for anybody to even dream of controlling the market.
Too much momentum.
At this point the main question is: How much market share are the old school dinos willing to sacrifice to try and prop up their obsolete batch-print business model?