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Originally Posted by maddz
With reference to piracy of fiction, do away with geo-restrictions, DRM and vendor walled gardens, and I think a lot of reasons for piracy disappear.
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I think piracy mostly exists because people can and because a lot of people aren’t willing to pay anything at all if they don’t have to. There’s the fallacy that somehow with digital goods people only have to pay what they think they should, as in:
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Also, the price of the ebook should reflect that you are not paying for printing or physical storage and transport costs.
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This is what I mean. Once costs are covered, it’s demand that sets price. Why should rights holders have to accept a lower price than they can get/that maximizes their profits? But people use this as a justification for all sorts of dubious practices. The price of the paperbook is somewhat irrelevant to the price of the ebook and relevant only to the extent that the two media are fungible for some.
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I also think that the price of keeping copyright 'alive' on an edition or work should include offering an ebook version at all times at a reasonable price (so no charging at £25 for mass-market fiction that currently sells at an average of £10).
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See above.