Thread: Open Source culture to blame for e-book piracy!
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Old 01-19-2010, 10:53 AM   #454
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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared View Post
I just had to revive the latest piracy thread to record this latest article and quote.

Will piracy rip the spine out of ebooks? By Gary Marshall of TechRadar.com
Gary Marshall writes,

Piracy is inevitable, but that doesn't mean piracy needs to do to the book industry what it did to music. To an extent the music industry was the architect of its own misfortune, responding to the threat of piracy with excessive DRM, too-high prices and format wars that confused and alienated customers.

So has the publishing industry learnt from the music industry's mistakes?

Given what we've seen so far as regards DRM, I don't have much confidence that things will improve in the short-term, but I think long term prospects are more hopeful.

Marshall quotes George Walkley (Hachette UK) as saying that the publishing industry also wants to avoid the file format wars:

"... device manufacturers are increasingly supporting epub natively. For example, Sony recently took the decision to deprecate its proprietary BBEB ebook format in favour of epub, and nearly all of the new ebook readers announced at CES support epub."

The elephant in this room, of course, is Amazon. Will Amazon eventually go the ePub route? Will ePub eventually become the new industry standard? Will DRM-free ePub eventually become routine?
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