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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Depends what you mean "deal with". If you mean "stop", heck no. If you mean "minimise the economic impact", heck yes.
Basically, my prescription looks roughly like this:
1. The public are not the enemy
2. Respect your customer's rights. All of them.
3. It's like drugs, the first hit should be free. (Yes, yes, sarcasm but still)
4. Sell cheaply, and if possible for smaller amounts more often.
5. Heavily cross-market your products and come up with reasonable premium products (such as Baen's eArc's).
6. Give your hardcore audience the tools to evangelise you.
Seli - Loss leaders are common in the UK as well.
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Yep, I agree with all that.
You'd see a lot less piracy. Only the other day they were offering a slew of Spillane ebooks on Kobo at very good prices. Now, if they'd let me put them all in a basket and buy them, and then allowed all that even though I'm in the UK, they might have had a purchase. As it was anybody who wanted those boosk in the UK would have had to jump through a ridiculous amount of hoops to get them, plus all the hassle with de-DRM'ing afterwards.
Same books, in ePub, one google search, available and ready to go in minutes. It's that level of convenience they need to put in place if they want to beat the Darknet.