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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I don't have any links to the exact numbers... but if I remember correctly once iTunes started selling DRM free overall sales went UP! Also, once Amazon opened it's DRM free MP3 store overall sales went UP again. So, there is good reason to think the same will happen with ebooks.
Does "sharing" increase? Perhaps, perhaps not. But, who cares? If sales go up isn't that what is most important to publishers and authors?
BOb
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The problem is the greed (or efficiency). I mean, as long as pople think that one pirated copy = one less sale, they will always perceive that as a waste, a leak. Plus, there is no evidence that mo DRM would raise sales in the long term. It even enhance the piracy problem: more casual piracy would certainly happen.
I understand your logic:
1 - 1000 mp3s: 400 bought, 600 pirated
2 - 10000 mp3s: 800 bought, 9200 pirated.
Well, selling 800 is better than 400... BUt would it be fair to increase the number of people hearing the mp3s for free, making the buyers the exception to the rule. The ones that will be mocked for spending money in something "everyone" is enjoying for free? It might even make buyers decide to pirate it, and scenario 2 turn to 3:
3- 10000 mp3s: 45 bought, 9955 pirated.