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Originally Posted by SimonSays
The thing is, theft just creates for higher prices, not lower ones. If everyone were to start stealing, authors wouldn't make any money at all and would stop making their work available to the public.
I just wish publishers would set their prices realistically. There is no reason why an ebook, especially with limitations due to ADE, should cost more than the mass market paperback version, IMHO
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Actually, 'theft' of ebooks doesn't increase the publication costs to the publishers or the retailers as no physical object has gone missing which needs to be replaced. Think about it. Has any paper been stolen? Has any printing ink gone missing? Are shipping containers destroyed or have delivery trucks been kyped, stripped and shipped off to foreign countries? Same with administrative labor costs. All of the work done to create the dead-tree books or formatting the original ebook files have been done and do not need to be re-performed. Yes, the intellectual property has been made off with, but there are no additional costs incurred by the 'theft' of ebooks.
Derek