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Originally Posted by HarryT
If that were to be the case, there would be no incentive whatsoever for any publisher to issue their back-catalogue as ebooks.
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And there would be no need. We'd have the books. Publishers would be paid. The trick is to have a reliable payment system where they'll really get paid.
One way a publisher might do this is to contact a pirate group of some sort and make a deal with them. Quit giving away our books to unlicensed people and instead take a commission for giving them to those with licenses. Not every pirate group would be willing to do that but I'd bet some would. They'd eliminate a source of piracy, sell some licenses and the former pirates would be turned into honest capitalists.
My guess is that the publishers would be far less offended by something like this than the members of this forum.
Barry