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Pirating ebooks is an offence against moral justice
- uberman 8y agoWhile the article touches on second hand sales (saying it would be immoral to seal a book from a second hand seller) ironically, this is exactly what digital only distribution seeks to do. Be it ebook or video game, online only first party sales seek to eliminate 3rd party sale completely. While I don't condone piracy, I am certain that digital only, first party only sales that will ultimately eliminate 3rd party (second hand) sellers and thus will more than make up for any piracy issue. There is a reason that MS and Sony are pushing for digital only content delivery for their gaming platforms and it has nothing to do with piracy.
- microwavecamera 8y agoWell put point. I also feel it's an issue of cost, in that, digital media cost to much. We went through the exact same thing with digital music. Major record labels wanted to charge the same prices for digital media as the actual physical media even through the distribution costs for the companies involved was significantly reduced. And that problem was compounded by DRM and vendor lock in. If digital books were accurately priced based on distribution costs, i.e. not having to print physical books, and you actually owned your digital copy (no DRM) people would buy it. These business need to adapt to the changing technology and emerging markets. The age of media empires and tradition industry monopolies is over. We have viable options now. Evolve or face extinction.
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