Thread: interesting take on DRM
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Old 10-14-2008, 09:21 AM   #8
bill_mchale
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And then they will say that ebooks don't sell, it's a bad business, terminate it and here we go to the pBook age again.
To quote Thomas Aquinas, "On the contrary". They will say that ebooks don't sell if all we read is PG books. And in fact they would be correct. On the other hand if we go out of our way to avoid DRM'd books, and buy non-DRM'd books, and buy them regularly, then the publishers of DRM'd books will notice their sales being stagnent while sales from publishers who sell DRM free books are climbing.

I think I read that Fictionwise sells something like 40,000 ebooks a month, Amazon I am sure sells more than that. Considering the number of dedicated ebook readers that are being produced, and the number of downloads of the eReader and Stanza software for the iPod Touch, it is getting hard for Publishers to deny the market exists. The ironic thing is that I believe that publishers of DRM free ebooks have also found their pbook sales increase as well .

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