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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
When e-book customers decide the security applied by sellers is acceptable to them, they will buy, and sellers will not lose so much sleep over perceived or actual losses.
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One cannot "buy" a "secure" eBook. I thought we'd been over this many, many times.
The "security" you are talking about is not against pirates - they scoff at the security. The only thing that a "secure" eBook is secured against is unauthorized use by customers.
The vendor controls what the customer can/cannot do with the eBook and if the customer wants to do something that is legal but unapproved, he can't. This means that the most the customer gets from paying money for a "secure" eBook is a very limited license to read the eBook for a limited period of time.
Buyers will not go for this. So long as sellers feel the need to "secure" their eBooks, eBook piracy will continue.
Did I mention that Cory Doctorow's latest book - Little Brother - which is available under a Creative Commons license, free of charge, as an eBook - is now in its
second printing and is now in its
fourth week on the New York Times Bestseller list?