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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Easy enough for things like Grokster, but less easy for torrents which may use private trackers, and you can't really bar Usenet.
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I was talking specifically about maintaining accounts on the private trackers, and you cannot track volumes on usenet. And, um, Grokster? Sorry, you're quite litterally
years behind the status-quo if you think that's still even remotely relevant today - it entirely died four years ago, and was surpassed well before then.
You can know that it's instead of a legal copy when no legal copy exists.
There are a small number of horders, but they're basically insignificant except insofar as they seed everything.
It's really not that hard!
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And while I can't prove it, I suspect that Baen doesn't have the issue of ebook sales cutting into hardcover sales. Lots of folks who want to read it now happily buy an ARC ebook edition, but I suspect they also buy the hardcover when released.
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I don't believe so from the statements Baen have made over the years. But if they replace hardback sales at 1:1, so what? The money involved is higher for Baen and the author for eARC's than a hardback (and it's months earlier)! I for one tend to wait and pick up the final ebook later rather than *any* paper version.
And why, precisely, wouldn't their model work for any fiction publisher? Oh, some academic press publishers and so on might find it dosn't work, but they'd be better looking at offering a service rather than a fixed book in the first place.