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I don't think us on this forum staying mum and pretending like what already happens commonly with music and video wouldn't happen with books will make an iota of difference in what publishers do. They're far more likely to take their cue from the hard data in other electronic content businesses. I think they probably thought of all this before I mentioned it.
I doubt they even take those of us on a forum like this as representative of what the future market will be like if ebooks start to rival the popularity of pbooks. We probably think a lot more about the ethics of file sharing than most people. Just because most of us here are happy to strip the DRM off our books for our personal use and never share them doesn't mean the mass-market customer will do the same. Once again, they know this without me mentioning it. I'm not divulging any big secret or planting the seed of an idea that hasn't occurred to them.
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