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Originally Posted by Spacejock
Dymocks Australia is selling an encrypted PDF version of Hal 1 for ... $23.95. That's one of the reasons I worked so hard to convince my publisher that 'free' was a better pricing point for ebooks.
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I know Cory Doctorow is quoting someone else, but I think he's got it right in his latest, "Little Brother" - it isn't piracy that's the problem, it's obscurity. Amazon boasts of having over 100,000 titles; eReader.com and Fictionwise are each claiming around 30,000 titles. In all that congestion, it's hard enough to find new works by authors I *do* like. And if it's a new author which - for whatever reason - these sites don't 'promote' on their main page, there's a good chance I won't hear about them. Add in dealing with an absurd ebook format such as PDF and the publisher and author can kiss a sale to me "goodbye".
Derek