Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirtel
Not to mention that there are vastly more people who consume music than there are people who read books. And there are still vastly more people reading paper books rather than ebooks, while the opposite is true in music industry (digital music vs CDs and other physical media). So I really doubt the book piracy has much influence on book industry in general, except perhaps for the indies who don't publish their books in paper at all.
|
I don't have any hard data, no one does, but I also doubt that piracy has much impact on the book industry, at least the book industry in Europe, the US and the former Commonwealth. From what I hear, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it has a major impact in Russia, China and India. I kind of doubt that piracy has a big impact on Indies. Custom probably has a much bigger impact on if there is wide spread piracy than laws or marginal cost. I suppose that high priced items are more likely to be pirated than low cost items.