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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Let me point out that now 26% of the people in this survey admit they get most of their books via P2P. Do you think this will be get any better as the less enlightened masses convert from pbooks to ebooks as their primary reading material? Do you think many publishers will want to embrace ebooks if it could mean losing a quarter of their sales?
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Confidence in the product quality is a big factor, as well. For a lot of us just starting into ebooks, the profusion of different file formats, vendors, and DRM schemes looks more than a little sketchy. When we search up the latest release by our favorite author and see it listed for $8 or $10 or $15(!!!) from a seller we don't know, not knowing the production quality or what format is best, and particularly if we've been burned by crap quality or restrictive DRM on other digital purchases, is it any surprise that we 'try it out' from other sources? The emergence of some industry standards will go a long way toward drying up P2P networks.
As to the "less enlightened masses," most are both clueless and paranoid about peer networks, usenet and the like, and would much rather head to a click-to-buy website than attempt to navigate the inter-underworld.