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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
I'm not sure publishers think e-book sales eat at print sales. After all, they have a higher profit margin on e-books than they do on print books.
What they seem to fear is that e-book *piracy* will eat at print sales.
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Here's hoping that they all eventually get two braincells to rub together and spot that the best ways to combat piracy are good availability and pricing on the legal alternatives.
If they try to ignore ebooks then they will force the person that wants an ebook into a choice of settling for the pbook version they didn't want or getting a pirated version and once people choose that second option it will seem so much easier for them to keep taking that option and thus that publisher will have created the piracy they feared.