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Originally Posted by bhartman36
But ebook piracy is a bit more dangerous for the consumer than music piracy, because, as I said, there's no easy way to put a paper book in digital format. At the point where they see widespread piracy, publishers could simply withdraw their ebook offerings altogether.
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1. Assuming the book was ever published as a
paper book. Admittedly, the vast majority of books currently are. But newer books are often written in a word processor, so no translation is needed. It's just a matter of contacting the author.
2. Hmm, let's see. Retyping paper books into digital format would require a lot of work. Almost as if, *gasp*, it could create new job opportunity. "It's beneath publishers to do that" ? Then people will have to do the work themselves, for free. If publishers don't want to participate (by creating incentives for well digitized books, paying for work etc), let them look like greedy bastards.
3. Profit from pirates by setting bounties for high quality ebooks, luring them out of the underground.
4. A lot of classic books are already digitized thanks to projects like Project Gutenberg.