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Originally Posted by Happ
Could you expand on this, please?
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What's there to expand on?
The best way to beat the darknets is to offer cheap, accessible versions of your books. Wizards of the Coast turned round one day and pulled all their PDF's from the net. Unsurprisingly, they're both not now making money off them
and more people are seeding and leeching torrents of their works.
And tough, Happ, I have a legal right to sell an ebook on. How publishers deal with that is their problem, but they have to provide the means or I can sue them. Their choice, again.
The music industry gave up on controls, and are doing better...but they'd be years ahead and making even more if they hadn't permanently alienated a large chunk of a generation as paying customers, and held back their own sales for years before they did give up the control. Why do other industries need to follow the same path? Skip the control freak stage and get on with making money, already!
And no, kenny, not the same rights but a whole bunch more. If I want to change the font to one I like, darn straight I should be able to do that. For a print book that'd be costly..for an ebook, not so.