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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
Yes, it harms Amazon, but Amazon doesn't put all the money in because it has to buy the e-books too.
The less Amazon sells, the less Amazon buys from the publisher, and the fewer royalties are paid to the author.
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This is nonsense. We are talking about people buying a copy and not passing it on to anyone. Amazon doesn't buy the ebooks ever. The publisher uploads to Amazon and gets paid nothing, but also pays nothing for the free listing. Then when someone buys the ebook, a percentage goes to the publisher and the rest to Amazon. The author might not be the publisher. If the Publisher as a royalty deal, then the author or author's estate gets paid. A publisher might outright own a work, or it might be PD, but their layout / notes is copyright, or the Author might have published direct.
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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
The abuse with regard to unauthorized copying therefore harms everyone.
Again: a paper book can only be read by one person at a time - a de-DRMed e-book can be read by a few and usually will be.
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This is a separate issue. We all agree that unauthorised re-distribution of copyright works is violation of the rights of the publisher/author/creator.
This has got NOTHING to do with format shifting for personal use.
DRM free ebooks are also pirated.
Paper books are pirated.
The bypassing or not of DRM is irrelevant. DRM is irrelevant to piracy.
You can by-pass Kindle DRM by having a lego robot swipe the page, automatically photograph it and then process as per pirating a paper book.
Almost ALL the the top selling authors have the Paper ARC pirated and sold or shared free before an ebook is even available from Amazon.
DRM is irrelevant.
Apple dropped DRM off iTunes.