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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I still don't get the point of (trying to) make a distinction.
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The economics are different.
You buy a novel to read for leisure*, you buy a textbook because it's necessary for your study. Novels are cheaper. Students often have less money.
Which means that the casual piracy which goes on, is probably more about convenience than saving money for novel readers. That's why Tor could go DRM-free and see no drop in sales. A textbook publisher has good reason to believe that the same would not happen for them.
(*unless you're a book reviewer but then it may well be free anyway)