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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
Do you think so? You may be right, but I think that if publishers reliably published decent quality ebooks at paper prices (i.e. in synch with hardback/paperback etc.), without format shifting issues (i.e., largely DRM), people wouldn't revert to the darknets very much. My experience is that versions from the darknet are often even worse than those from the major publishers - all I want is to be able to buy their ebooks without geographic or format restrictions.
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Darknets or no, I think they miss out on the impulse buyer. Or the buyer who thinks they are waiting and then forgets about the book entirely (that would be me quite often.)
There are opportunities with ebooks that didn't exist with hard copy books, but many publishers aren't taking advantage of them. It's their ballgame, but I would think attracting the impulse buyer at a good price would more than make up for bothering with a delay.