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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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.
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Except that you can’t, or oughtn’t, use a duplicitous article which misuses stats to present an inaccurate analysis. It undermines your argument in the sense that if that’s the best you can do, you’re on shaky ground yourself.
That “54% increase in sales” which is really a 54% increase in portion of ebooks.com sales? First, we can assume that the publisher’s sales didn’t go up 54%, because ebooks.com wouldn’t have engaged in that roundabout locution if they had. So why did their percentage of ebooks.com sales go up? Because ebooks.com sales went down? Because other publishers stopped selling through ebooks.com? In any case, it doesn’t reflect well on ebooks.com actual sales. No wonder they’re casting around for new business!