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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan
I think it's a great idea but poorly implemented. Why not provide a single use code on the receipt that customers can input on a website in order to download the ebook?
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That would require buy-in from the retailers, and I suspect it would be a lot harder and more expensive than the system they've come up with. It would also get them a lot less publicity.
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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan
I can see people getting together and passing a copy of a book between them while taking pictures. Free books for everyone!
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Given that the PDF doesn't have DRM or any form of security, the simpler way to do that would be to take one picture to get the PDF, then email the PDF to everyone that wants it. But then, the same is true of any ebook that doesn't have DRM (and it's not much more difficult for books with DRM), but when Tor stopped using DRM, they
didn't notice an increase in piracy. I'm sure what you describe will happen, but I'm not convinced it'll happen so much that it'll cause the publisher real problems.