Thread: John Grisham speaks out on the future of pbooks and ebooks
View Single Post
Old 11-22-2009, 06:16 PM   #143
charleski
Wizard
charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 1,196
Karma: 1281258
Join Date: Sep 2009
Device: PRS-505
Quote:
Originally Posted by SanFranMatt View Post
Why would anybody assume that people don't pirate the digital books? When Grisham considers whether or not to go digital, I'd imagine piracy is the #1 reason for him to hesitate.
I seem to recall that this attitude worked really well for J.K. Rowling. So well, in fact, that people who might otherwise not have got involved in piracy ended up helping to digitise her last HP book so that a reasonably-well-proofed machine-readable form of it appeared on torrent sites within a week of the book's release. The Harry Potter books are now probably the most easily-obtainable of all pirated literature...

You fight piracy with convenience. If you only need to tap a few keys on your Kindle to read the latest John Grisham book right now, then people will pay rather than hunt out a torrent, wait for it to download and then try to figure out how to convert an amateur PDF file to something your machine will read properly.
charleski is offline   Reply With Quote