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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to assume that once a book is in electronic form, people won't actually pay for it. those who do pay for it will promptly share it with everyone else, stripping out DRM if needed, and ultimately, there isn't really a paying market for ebooks large enough to support writers.
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Yes, that's what
I believe.
It's not that
everyone is going to share the file. You only need,
one person to do it.
Even if a lot of people do
actually pay for the book but we assume that some others (even if a minority) doesn't (and this is what already happens today), the copyright model is something different, because you don't have a 1-payment-per-book model as you used to. Even if this model can still support writers it'll be unstable and I believe that if authors want to be fully payed, they have to think of something else.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Price properly, and give people the feeling that they are getting actual value for their money, and it shouldn't be a problem.
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If you live in the US and you buy from an American e-publisher you can easily judge the price in terms of "fair or not faire". But 1 USD has a completely different value in Washington or in Beijing. When you sell in the Internet you sell to the entire world. Are you sure someone from New Delhi will think of 1USD as a fair price for an ebook?