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Originally Posted by p3aul
Well, I guess your minds made up so I'll stop trying to confuse you with the facts. As I said before, your conclusion about DRMless books being good for the publisher is just mindset, it's not logical. Your concept is like me buying a hardback book; reading it, then taking it back to the dealer and saying "Here is this hardback book. I'm not giving it back to you but, because I've bought it, now I want the paperback version for free.
Can't you understand *that* bit of logic?
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When we find out about a publisher and/or author releasing eBooks without DRM, it gets more of us to go check out the eBooks then it would had hey had DRM. This is a fact. And for an unknown author, this is a good thing. Then all it takes it one person to purchase, read, and post a positive review on MR. Then you'll find sales rising based on that. And this all started because there is no DRM.
What facts have you provided us with? The only "facts" as I see it are that we are all thieves and without DRM we WILL steal. That is an asinine assumption that has no facts associated with it.
I will give you a fact you will find (I hope) interesting. Most of the DRM free eBooks out there are not actually pirated as must as eBooks with DRM. That is the truth. Now what do you have to say about DRM?
I know some people who will take a CD that has copy protection and pirate the hell out of it on general principle. But if the CD doesn't have copy protection, they will not steal it. So the copy protection is working in reveres there.
Why are you so bitter? Why do you think we are all crooks? Do you know that reasonable prices and no DRM work better for having your work less distributed all over the net?