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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
I don't see a future to e-readers, as the sales of e-books will continue to fall, because the book released in a digital format will be stolen by pirates in days.
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By your logic the music industry should be long gone by now.
You might want to note that many authors now release books DRM Free. Why do you think they do this?
I'll give you a hint It's because book piracy is a great way to get an author's work distributed (especially a self published one). Do you think Andy Weir had an issue with people pirating The Martian?
Not to mention the digitial distribution model for books is vastly better than paper books. Plus its easy to convert paper books to digital for piracy. Hell, the Harry Potter books were pirated into digital almost immediately after publication. The irony is that Rowling refused to create digital books because she didn't want to lose revenue to pirates when days after each book was released there were V5 EPUB's everywhere on the net.
And yet her new releases have been released digitally in conjunction with paper copies.
Not to mention, there are literally millions of people that read digitally that would never have a clue how to strip DRM out of an ebook and convert it to a usable format; or go find pirate sites, download, convert etc.
Both my parents have moved to reading digitally on Samsung tablets I gave them. Neither would ever consider pirating books.
The irony is, the generation that is most comfortable with pirating content and converting is also the generation that reads the least books...