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Originally Posted by Moejoe
What is specious is your assumption that someone who downloads won't buy the product, or that their motivation is because of 'not wanting to pay'. There are countless reasons to download that range from geographical unavailability to protesting the system. Assuming that somehow every downloaded copy equals an product not purchased is specious. It does not, and has not worked that way for a long time. Study upon study shows that downloaders purchase more on an average than a non-downloader.
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I never said every downloaded copy equals a product not purchased. I said the vast majority do and that is true when it comes to ebooks.
The studies have all been done in areas where the market place has adapted to the digital age. Yes, music downloaders very likely go out and buy some music after downloading because the market place has adapted and made buying downloaded music cheap and easily accomplished. The ebook market place, for good or ill, has not, so to suggest that most ebook downloaders go out and buy a legit copy is ridiculous when the number one reason most often given for downloading illegal copies of ebooks is because they cost too much to buy legitamately.
As for the reason for downloading, I only make the claim most do it because they don't want to pay for it because that is the number one reason given. Most people freely admit they would be happy to legally purchase a copy of an ebook if they were cheaper. Ergo, their reason for not purchasing it is because they do not want to pay the asking price. Not to mention the fact that whatever the reason(and I doubt the majority do it to "protest the system" or geographical unavailability) the end result is the same.
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
As to control, well we live in an age of zero's and ones. If the writer wants full control, then he better lock his manuscript away in a box and never show it to anyone ever again. Once it's out there he can hope, he can pray, he can do a little voodoo dance but it's just a grand illusion. The audience is now the distributor, it is they who have the control.
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So what you are saying is once a book is published the author has no rights and shouldn't expect any? If he chooses to publish only in paper form then who cares, it is your god given right to go and scan a copy and upload it to a server so anyone who wants a copy can have it and the author should just accept that? Or if he epublishes he should just accept the fact that again it is your god given right to upload it to a server so many thousands of people around the world can have a copy without any sort of compensation to the author? What about changing the book? Not fan-fiction mind you but actually changing the book and then distributing it? Is that ok too? What about simple plagarism? It's up to the audience to do what they like isn't it? And on a moral scale plagarism probably falls below grand theft auto, assault and battery and many other things so I guess it's ok by some people's logic. Should I be able to simply put my name to it? Where do you draw the line?
Again I wonder if your thoughts will change should you ever be published?
Cheers,
PKFFW