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Originally Posted by astra_lestat
You can download illegal copy of almost any book nowdays. So, they are loosing anyway. What is a solution?
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Frankly, nothing.
The genie is out of that particular bottle and can't be stuffed back in. My personal feeling is that DRM efforts are ultimately futile and misguided. You issue the books without DRM, and you trust there's a large enough market willing to pay for content to support you.
The folks who grab the illegal copies aren't likely to have paid for them in the first place, so it's not like you're losing revenue you might otherwise have had. And while illegal copies are available, how much of the market knows where to get them? And will the format be one they can use? I see lots of books scanned, OCRed, and posted to various newsgroups. As plain text. The effort to get it into a format I would want to read on my PDA is far more trouble than I care to go through, and I'm someone with sufficient technical knowledge that I
could do it.
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I, for example, looking forward for a moment when there is an online shop like baen with the latest books available with baen prices, NON-DRM and of a format similar to RTF or HTML, so I can be sure I can re-read the book any time. From that moment on I will stop buying paper books at all and will spend my money on ebooks.
Right now I am still buying them, like the latest box set of HP books 1-6. What else can I do? Nothing.
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That's what I do. Unlike some folks here, I don't want ebooks to
replace paper books. I still happily buy, read, and collect those, and I'll buy a paper edition if no ebook edition exists, or sometimes in preference to an ebook edition if one does.
I like the convenience of a library in my pocket, but it doesn't have to be the same one that I have on my shelves.
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Dennis