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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I'd love to see some evidence that piracy has decreased or that profits have increased. All I see is the statement that piracy hasn't increased. I know that they save $0.22 a book, but if this was making a meaningful difference in the bottom line, I would think that all of MacMillan and others would have gone DRM free by now.
Helen
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The adobe tax doesn't affect the publisher; it affects the consumer or the retailer who has to compete with Apple and Amazon. On one single file it isn't much but summed up across a year's worth of sales it adds up to millions of dollars worth of competitive advantage to the non-adobe vendors.
That it matters to the retailers, look to Kobo who invested time and money in Kepub to minimize their reliance on adobe DRM.
The publishers cling to DRM thinking it keeps piracy from getting worse and Adobe plays off those fears. And since they don't directly suffer the consequences, they'll stick with it a while longer until the evidence is so stacked they can't pretend anymore. But the same people that insist on DRM then bemoan the increasing concentration of sales in the single-vendor DRM camps.