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Originally Posted by tirsales
One possible market-advantage for authors/publishers: Service. Have a good and nice page where you can buy (and use) your books/music very easy (easier and faster as downloading the product from grey/black market) and give away very high quality.
I personally do very much prefer simply clicking "buy this-and-that-book" on a fast server (prefarably from my reader and wherever I am) then searching, downloading, waaaaiiiitiiing on a p2p-net.
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This is a dangerous idea. Suppose we say "ebook distribution is fully legalized from now on", and you rely on authors having a "nice page" to buy their book from, nothing is to stop someone from setting up a huge ebook site which will always come up first in Google search results, taking all kinds of credit cards, and selling their (copied) ebooks to you. Their business model would be "find the author's nice page, buy one copy of their book, and put it in our own catalog."