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Originally Posted by Pinecone
The fallacy is twofold:
1) DRM doesn't stop piracy. As the music industry found.
2) If you jack up the prices, you encourage piracy. At $1 per book, why pirate? If I want a 10 book series, it costs $10. At $14, that same series costs $140. At a $140, piracy becomes tempting.
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It's a question of whether it's commercially viable to produce a book at $1 per copy. If your costs are $2 a copy, it clearly isn't.