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Originally Posted by Alisa
I suspect the per-book cost of DRM is a good deal higher than your hypothetical figure, too. I can't see it being able to sustain companies like Mobipocket at that level.
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If it is the case, publisher are losing more money than in my example!
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the main thing publishers need to realize is that it doesn't prevent piracy. Nothing prevents piracy 100%. The best you can do is encourage people to pay for their content by making it convenient and reasonably priced.
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Completely agree with you. Pirated versions will be always available whether the books are offered a) only in pbook, b) in ebook with DRM, or c) in ebook without DRM. A certain option will be slightly easier than the others but it does not matter much as we saw from Harry Potter example where its ebook were made from pbook in one day.
Publishers seem to ignore (or do not want to acknowledge) that significant number of people will still buy the content legally to support authors
regardless of whether pirated versions are available.
Publishers are better off removing DRM since 1) removing DRM will be more profitable for publishers, 2) consumers will be happier buying DRM-less content, and 3) adding DRM makes little, if any, difference to pirates. It is mystifying that publishers are cling to DRM without apparent benefit, but hopefully they will grow out of FUD sooner than later.