Thread: Misleading Metaphors That Drive The War On Online Sharing
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Old 11-16-2011, 06:07 AM   #131
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Extra readers?
Just to expand on this, books have always had a high ratio of readers to buyers. That problem doesn't exist with the one reader per sale model of ebooks with DRM. So a certain amount of slippage through unauthorised downloading doesn't really matter.

UK government figures say 25% of the online population downloads unauthorised digital films and music on a regular basis. If that figure remains constant for ebooks, that's still a 75% purchase rate. A lot higher than I would expect the purchase rate for real books to be.
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