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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
WRONG!!! there was hell to pay when there was the artificial wait for King's last novel. many of us are saying, and I'll say it again;
release the e-book at the same time as the hardback! if it isn't there WILL be piracy!
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There will be piracy, period. Some illegit copies are going to float around on the web and through sneakernet no matter what the publishers do. The only sane response to that is Baen's, and the big publisher have made it clear that they can't handle that policy.
But there will be less piracy if the ebooks are reasonably priced, even if they're released later. I suspect that a $7 ebook released two months later will draw less piracy than a $15 ebook released with the hardcover. Plenty of people will wait--especially if they can pre-order the $7 version.
Of course, this is all hypothetical, because Macmillan isn't talking about $7 versions of King's new novels; they're talking about $15 versions which later drop to $10 versions, maybe, after the paperback is released.