Thread: Does an ebook sale represent, to you, a lost print sale?
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Old 09-15-2009, 01:02 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by Shaggy View Post
I find this to be a pretty bogus argument. Whether it's an eBook sale or a pBook sale, it's still a sale.
They're either considering it either a lost hardcover sale (hence the insane ebook prices), or they believe that a certain percentage of ebooks will have their DRM cracked & be released into the darknet--and they're charging their customers a "security fee" to make up for the "lost sales" of pirated ebooks.
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