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Originally Posted by issybird
There is so much unsupported conjecture presented as fact in this article. Even the numbers are misinterpreted. The 54% increase is not in sales; it’s in percentage of sales. Without knowing the total sales figures we have no idea if that was a gain at all or how much of one.
And even the article says in so many words that this was a special case (technical books) and that popular fiction and basic texts could be better served by DRM after all.
Basically they took a minute, essentially meaningless comparison and blew it up into a bubble that pops as soon as you look at it. It’s pure marketing and should be given the same level of credence as a detergent commercial.
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One thing I've never read was about any publisher who has removed DRM losing sales. Tor did say at some point that sales did not drop because of removing DRM. Pocket Books (part of Simon & Schuster) has not come out and said they've lost sales. In fact, because of no DRM on Star Trek eBooks., I was able to help someone in the UL with a Kindle get a Star Trek eBook when Amazon botched it. The solution was to get the ePub and convert.
So really, DRM isn't good on anything but library eBooks.