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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
But is your perception, in fact, the reality?
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This statement works both ways.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
There is no direct evidence of increasing book sales, in fact, they seem to be steadily decreasing with everything else in this economy... so the idea that more people are buying printed books just to turn them into e-books sounds nice, but isn't backed up.
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Book sales do not necessary need to increase to provide evidence, it is possible for people to not buy more books than they used to, and still digitise the books they do buy.
At the moment the sales of most things are decreasing, regardless of potential copying, on top of reports that sales of books have been decreasing for years before ebooks were starting to become recognised', this has been seen as an icdication thet people are reading less, not stealing more.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
With a dearth of evidence, publishers have no choice but to respond to what they do have... which includes comments from MR members of being willing to go to the darknet. Maybe if those selfsame people were regularly contacting publishers and asking for the e-books they want, instead of regularly posting here that they'll just take them, publishers might react differently.
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A lot of members here are very regularly being very vociferous about the un-availability of books they want. If the publishers are reading comments about the darknet here, they will surely also be exposed to all the comments alongside them saying ' I do it because they refuse to supply it to me' - so they should certainly be getting the message.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Readers and publishers are presently in an adversarial relationship. partially borne on a lack of information on both sides. Unless that changes, this problem isn't going to be fixed.
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I think the adversarial relationship exists, becasuse the readers feel they are always being constantly accused of theft: Readers see DRM as a statement, that the publishers are not willing to trust them despite many stements that people are willing to support authors. Publishers see the resistance to DRM,as justification to their suspicions that were are all thieves.