A funny little thing, but still maybe food for thought:
This Week’s Top 5 Most Pirated eBooks Are Downloaded by Argumentative and Suspicious Folks, article.
It seems that fiction, the most heavily sold eBook category, is also the least pirated.
I think that "piracy" takes a bit more tech know-how than most people have. I use a computer much more than most people, and yet the rare times I have to use torrent downloads, I find the whole thing obtuse and frustrating.
This may actually be the saving grace of the thing.
This article gives some support to that.
...e-book piracy is still a small problem. Right now it’s a very geeky pastime, which is reflected in the skew of these titles (Getting Things Done, Freakonomics and The Tipping Point were on the TorrentFreak list).
I also think that even in the long run, attitude are essential. If you treat people like thieves, they are much more likely to become so. Two thriving tech book publishers, O'Reilly and Take Control Books, are publishing ebooks without DRM constriction (technical ways of stopping copying). And the publisher of Take Control says that piracy of their books, despite them being right central in the most exposed market, is virtually non-existent. I believe it's because they treat their customers with respect and trust.
1 comment:
I agree, if you treat people like thieves, they are much more likely to become so. I never downloaded pirated e-books. I think that it's all about respecting the writer's work. I use to download e-books from a website called all you can books from where I can download as many books as I want for a small fee monthly and it's cheaper than buying every book separately and it's not piracy. Maybe books are to expensive for some of us but there are always alternative solutions, better than stealing.
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