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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Either that or it's the economy and people are more worried about paying their mortgage and putting food on the table than they are spending money on leisure activities. But that would just be silly. Let's blame the "pirates" instead, that will give us an excuse to ram more draconian laws through congress.
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Just to be clear, I wasn't posting facts to argue that ebook piracy is hurting publishing. I believe it's a very small portion NOW, but only because ebooks are a very small portion of the industry in total. My point was simply that indeed, the publishing industry has been in decline for a while and needs to embrace ebooks in order to survive. I also believe those ebooks need to be cheaply priced and easily available, with or without DRM, or ebook piracy will become a major problem. (Though the industry is probably better off with lots of ebooks and lots of ebook piracy than little of both.)