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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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This is a somewhat misleading statistic. One would need to know how many of those 26% would not have acquired the books at all if they would have to pay for them.
You can't lose a sale that you would not have had in any case! I suspect that it is a good deal more than half of them.