Monday, July 1, 2002
Does the lack of ebooks encourage piracy?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 12:11 PM
http://www.writingonyourpalm.net/column020701.htm
Jeff Kirvin has written an article this week called "The Truth About Piracy." If you are interested in ebooks at all I encourage you to read it. The crux of the article, for me anyway, is near the end. "Let's face it, most people are just lazy enough to prefer buying a professionally formatted, easily available ebook to tracking down a pirate edition filled with OCR errors." For me, this is a big "DUH!" Apparently the publishers don't get it though.
What do you think? I have a friend that has seen all sorts of pirated paper books in alt.binaries.ebooks and the like, but never one available as an ebook purchase. Why are publishers so paranoid about this and costing themselves customers?
Jeff Kirvin has written an article this week called "The Truth About Piracy." If you are interested in ebooks at all I encourage you to read it. The crux of the article, for me anyway, is near the end. "Let's face it, most people are just lazy enough to prefer buying a professionally formatted, easily available ebook to tracking down a pirate edition filled with OCR errors." For me, this is a big "DUH!" Apparently the publishers don't get it though.
What do you think? I have a friend that has seen all sorts of pirated paper books in alt.binaries.ebooks and the like, but never one available as an ebook purchase. Why are publishers so paranoid about this and costing themselves customers?
