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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Publishers would adapt better to ebooks by dropping DRM entirely.
As for piracy and declining sales — there is no decline in ebook sales. Any figures showing a decline in ebook sales only cover a fraction of the ebook market. Ebook sales are growing.
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I may be wrong, but I'd heard they were down for the major publishers, but the indie market was seeing a large upswing. Since we were discussing major publishers that's what I was basing my statement on. Again I may be wrong on that.
And I agree entirely about ditching DRM, Tor did it awhile back and has seen no negative impact in their sales sufficient to change that policy. DRM, in my opinion, does nothing to discourage piracy and instead just hinders honest customers from using their ebooks.