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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I tend to disagree with you regarding piracy. I have yet to see any evidence that piracy is a major issue for book publishers. First off, while piracy does exists for paper books, typically in various 3rd world countries, it's a non factor in markets like the US and UK. So piracy is mostly an eBook thing and eBooks is only around 20% of the book market the last time I looked. Publishers charge what they think will give them the most profit.
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My rant is indeed biased towards ebook market, and its sorry state of ridiculous pricing pretty much killing it. Print is a kind of different can of worms, as the audience for dead trees is far bigger - for now. If we were to draw comparison to music again, we're in 99 - napster exists, mp3s are kinda shitty and low bitrate, and far more people simply buy cds still, mostly because everyone is on expensive dialup (e-readers are kinda huge upfront investment).
Pirate scans indeed don't register all that much in grand scheme of things once we abandon the ebook context, though there are notable exceptions (such as textbooks or journals).