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Originally Posted by guguy
Editors already own electronic version of all their books.
Sure they have some conversion work but it doesn't worth the
+-8$ they ask for an ebook. If I already own a paper version I'm not
willing to pay more than 1$ for the ebook version.
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Oh, I agree. As for e-book piracy in general, I don't think it has much effect on sales whatsoever. Because some people buy books and others do not. If you want to view piracy as evil, and think it has a huge impact on publisher's profits, well- look at public libraries. How many sales have public libraries cost book publishers? If a publisher sells a single copy of a book to a library, and that book is checked out by 50 different people during the following year, does this mean that the publisher has lost 50 book sales? Heavens!
If you think so, then forget piracy- go after the libraries. They are the real criminals here, the entities that take the bread from writers mouths and profits from publishers wallets!
Eliminating piracy won't force a cheapskate to buy a book.