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Old 04-02-2012, 08:26 PM   #35
SteveEisenberg
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Originally Posted by MovieBird View Post
Once DRM no longer locks people into a specific platform, then competing stores will participate in a battle to the death with prices.
You could be right. But Mike Shatzkin (read all his recent blog entries) seems to want a world with higher-priced non-DRM (or watermark-only DRM) eBooks and lower priced brick-storefront-sold paper books.

I see no moral reason why one product should or should not be more expensive than another. It's obvious from reading this site that a lot of people prefer eBook over print, and that's reason enough for a price differential. But if anyone wants another: Without DRM, you can share your book with a friend at the same time you yourself are doing it. Can't do that with print. Also, a print book lying around our house, or even in my hands on the subway, is an advertisement for the title.
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