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Originally Posted by miguel1626
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
That's why there were no digital copies of books floating around the internet before Peanut Press. The alt.binaries newsgroups never had books.
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I'll do a Sheldon here, but am I detecting sarcasm? |
Perhaps I need to be less subtle?
My digital copy (a txt file) of The Hobbit is dated 1999. Somehow, I suspect that "stronger encryption on the DRM" is not going to prevent unauthorized digital copies from existing. Arguing for better and stronger DRM forgets that early "pirate" ebooks weren't Adept-stripped epubs or unlocked .lit files.
Stronger DRM combined with viewing methods that are harder to extract content from will indeed cut down on the number of mid-list relatively unknown authors' works being thrown around the web. I don't see any indication that this will increase their sales, rather than just making them even more obscure than they are now.
My current big push about ebook piracy: Nobody gets paid for stopping pirates. The NY Times doesn't have a "Most Pirates Stopped" list. Authors get paid for
selling books; if stopping pirates helps do that, great; otherwise, they need to figure out who the customer base is & convince them to buy.