This comes down to one simple thing: giving consumers what they want, when they want it. If publishers don't give them books the way they want them, consumers will find another way to get them (piracy). It's happened in music, it's happened in TV, it's happened in movies...and it will happen in publishing.
I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying it will happen if publishers don't wake up and think about how their customers want to consume their content.
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