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Originally Posted by markbot
I agree with Alexie on a few fronts. The despicable "open source" culture that pervades the internet and 75% of the world's population, especially in Asia, will lead to fewer incentives to innovate and to create. I have no doubt that book pirating will become as bad as music pirating once books go all digital. Sure, you can digitize a paper book and sell it illegally in paper or digital form.....but the consumers of that pirated copy will have a new powerful tool in which to steal: the ebook.
This is why ebooks must have ironclad DRM.
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That's a bunch of bullpuckey! In the suburb of Sacramento in which I live there are over seven used book stores within a 5-mile radius. Each and every copy sold in those stores is a complete rip-off of the authors and publishers (using the same definition as they have created about ebooks) because neither publishers nor authors sees a dime of income on the used-book sales. I know several dozens of people who buy, then trade in for 'store credit', which they then use to redeem other traded-in books. If treated carefully, a used book can allow readers to 'steal the income' several dozen times over. Do you suggest we ban the operation of used book stores simply because they don't enrich the publishers?
Then how can you, even sarcastically, make the same claim about ebooks?
Derek