This isn't relevant to the thread going on in the "Why I like the Iliad" thread, so though I would split it off.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...4&postcount=16
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Originally Posted by Me
iRex have just had a similar incident (though to another network/channel), and also removed the link once it was reported. As said there, if we want the iLiad to succeed (which I certainly do, even if I am annoyed with them) giving publishers the impression that iLiad users are all pirates is not going to help in the slightest.
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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...5&postcount=17
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Originally Posted by Bob
I think that the more publishers learn about e-book replays, the more likely that they will understand it's a very very small minority who pirate books. And that there are a huge majority of users that are frustrated by the rediculous efforts required to get an e-book in usable form for the long run.
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I agree that it's a very small minority, out there. who pirate books. I remember a recent article (teleread) which claimed that the vast majority of pirated books were sci-fi/fantasy (with romance being next on the list if memory serves)
But I do feel that the problem will be more the impression that publishers have of e-book readers and the devices. Once the publishers have the impression that all e-book readers are theives, then it will be very hard to shake them out of that mindset.
I suspect that places such as mobileread/teleread/irex and their forums will come under a great deal of scrutiny over the coming months. And it's there that the publishers will take note of the people openly claiming to be reading pirated books.
An analogy would be the height of game piracy on the Amiga format. When games companies started moving much more towards the consoles more and more with the reason that that diddn';t bring out amiga versions because they couldn't afford the piracy.
Do we want to give the impression that the only option for publishers is to go with Sony's DRM because people using the iLiad won't pay for content?!?! (OK extreme example I admit).
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Originally Posted by Bob
(There are also, of course, many who will even go out and buy a hardcover or paperback to try to make payment in the best way they know how, and then scan or find another copy of the e-book. But a lot just don't buy the ebooks, or will never buy a DRM book.)
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I know, I'm one of them. Once I have my bookshelves back-up (as the majority of my books are packed in cardboard boxes ready to be moved when I find a house) I fully intend to get myself electronic copies of them, at the moment I am limiting myself to the Baen free library, manybooks, and selected downloads of books I am 100% sure I definatly own.
I am aware it's skirting the letter of the law (Ok breaking the law entirely) but I don't intend to (and will not) share electronic copies with anyone. And as I own the original paper books I suspect any lawsuit would be laughed out of court.
"Wait, so he actually owns the book you claim he pirated?"
"yes m'lud!"
"And he paid for the book?"
"Yes m'lud!"
"And he hasn't shared his copy of the book with anyone else, it's just for his personal use?"
"So he claims, and we can't find any evidence to the contrary, m'lud!"