Thread: Is piracy likely to harm ebook sales?
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Old 04-01-2010, 12:43 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton View Post
I'm wondering whether piracy is really the problem that publishers face.
It isn't. The problem, as you suggest, is competing demands on disposable income.

DRM is part of the problem, not the solution. Iit just adds one more cost to the production of ebooks and discourages sales.
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