Thread: "Most e-books in The Netherlands are not paid for."
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Old 02-07-2014, 04:18 PM   #61
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Originally Posted by sirmaru View Post
I am sure losses on free sharing of copy protected eBooks had some share of the blame for this outcome.

Another thread active now on this Forum has more information on the Sony situation.

I am also sure this is just the first casualty. There will be more to follow. Depriving retailers, publishers and authors of their rightful fees does have an effect on the industry.

I had done a poll on this site some time ago with 173 respondents showing overwhelming use of Alf to strip DRM. That does reflect this forum and it may reflect the tendency of eBook users who are active in the hobby.

Finally, many of those "file sharing" sites REQUIRE uploading of files to be shared in order to qualify for downloading other free files. Thus, the "collectors" of those thousands of files may be on both ends of the sharing: uploading AND downloading.

For me I don't mind PAYING a fair fee for an eBook. The standard Amazon price of $ 10.00 per eBook is still a lot less than the old prices of $ 40.00 for a print book 30 years ago. I also do NOT need backups of any eBooks I buy. I buy them to READ ONCE and then discard them as I did with print books years ago from the Book of the Month Club. I only need Amazon to keep getting new eBooks for me to keep reading.
OK, point by point:

1) Sony's strategic situation has been terrible for a long time. Nothing about that situation supposed the idea that piracy played more than a minor part in Sony's decline.

2) Removing DRM doesn't mean pirating. Most of the people I know who go to the trouble to buy legally and remove DRM are the people who deliberately don't pirate. If someone feels piracy is OK, they're going to pirate, not bother to buy a book and disinfect it.

3) It's interesting to hear about how pirate sites work. I wouldn't know, since I have bought my 1,000+ collection of books legally and removed the DRM instead of pirating.

4) It's great that you know what you need. Please keep in mind that you are not everyone, and other people have different needs.
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