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Originally Posted by Ferns
In my opinion DRM isn't the only thing that would drive people to piracy in the UK anyway. Waterstones is probably our best known chain of book stores, and browsing their ebook offerings, it struck me that the prices they ask, in many cases, aren't that much cheaper than their paperback prices. Given the massive reduction in overheads when selling ebooks, it really irritates me me that rather than make a fair profit, companies like that appear to want to rip every last penny they can from customers.
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I have no problem with charging paperback prices for ebooks. Where I have a problem is keeping the same royalty percentages to authors for ebooks that they pay for paperbacks. I believe authors should get a larger share of ebook revenues.
Derek