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  Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution
Subject:   Electronic publishing and "piracy"
Date:   2002-12-13 08:42:23
From:   everdarkliz
Response to: Electronic publishing and "piracy"

Actually, this isn't news to the thousands of authors who started _out_ being published electronically. Few if any of the successful epublishers--Hard Shell Word Factory, Awe-Struck eBooks, DiskUS--bother with encryption for the simple reason it's a waste of time and money.


But, you argue, that's not the same as Stephen King or Patricia Cornwell or [insert huge money-making author's name here]. No, it's not. But behaving as if every reader is a potential thief isn't exactly good customer relations. It's rather like a department story insisting on having every departing customer undergo a body search.

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