Thread: "The book industry is gonna get Napstered..."
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Old 07-23-2009, 01:27 PM   #150
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Originally Posted by HansTWN View Post
I am a consumer only (no connection to authors, publishers, etc), and I prefer the pay-per-book method.
Pay-per-book is fine. What DRM is trying to create is "pay-per-reader," which has never been required for books before.

Unless the publishing industry figures out how to allow ebooks to be legally & conveniently loaned & re-sold, the pirate industry will continue to shadow them.

There is no large pirate industry with paper books, because the loan-and-resell market is HUGE. (There is some... there are universities where copying textbooks is common. But this hasn't reached outside of that closed setting because people who can't or won't pay full price for a pbook, for whatever reason, do have easy, legal ways to acquire one. Remove that, and you'd see an explosion of home-printed copies of popular novels.)
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