Thread: E-Book Piracy: The Publishing Industry's Next Epic Saga?
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Old 12-24-2009, 02:48 AM   #5
delphidb96
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Originally Posted by kjk View Post
http://www.pcworld.com/article/185335/ebook_piracy.html



I'm sure they all told him personally.
I love the way the author managed to work in the lie that only bulky, hard-to-find and not-really-marketable textbooks were pretty much the only thing out there *until* the rise of the Nook, Kindle and the like. Riiiiigggghhhtttt... You publishing industry apologists keep repeating that mantra - for all the good it will do you.

I'm wondering. I've noticed that we're now seeing the rise of a trend to put even PD books into commercial release through BoB, Fictionwise, eReader and Amazon - as well as all those back-list books they kept telling us just weren't 'profitable enough' to ebook-ize. Could it be that *someone* finally got wise to the fact that people would gladly *pay* for them - but if the publishers refused to release to ebook, the customers would just hunt them out on the dark-nets??? Hmmmm....

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