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Originally Posted by leaston
I still haven't seen any definitive evidence to prove that piracy truly hurts sales.
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I suggest reading this 2012 pdf:
Assessing the Academic Literature Regarding the Impact of Media Piracy on Sales
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...act_id=2132153
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Based on our review of the empirical literature we conclude that, while some papers in the literature find no evidence of harm, the vast majority of the literature (particularly the literature published in top peer reviewed journals) finds evidence that piracy harms media sales.
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The eBook study I posted earlier isn't included in the above literature review, because it came out this year, so I will mention it again:
http://www.econ.umn.edu/~reime062/re...racy_paper.pdf
And here is a post-literature-review study on movies:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...act_id=2229349
You might make an argument that the cost of an anti-piracy measure exceeds the benefit. You might argue that some subgroup among books isn't hurt by piracy (if sales are currently zero, piracy won't hurt). But the evidence is that piracy, on average, hurts sales.
Is there something about indic language books that makes them a poorer -- or better -- candidate for DRM than those in English? That's should be the question for the OP poster, not some general argument that piracy is harmless.