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Originally Posted by pshute
Expensive ones, for a start. They'd have to be cheaper to avoid the temptation to copy them for free. Books that require massive resources to produce, ie lots of time spent on research, and which have a small market, couldn't survive..
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How would making an expensive book cheaper, make it any more or less of a temptation to copy?
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Originally Posted by pshute
On the other hand, unlike printed books, it would be easier to make ebooks stay "in print" forever. Only squabbles over publishing rights would make it hard.
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I'm not sure the medium will make any difference to the length of popularity of a book.