Sentences with phrase «most ebook piracy»

Most ebook piracy can not even be seen as lost sales or revenue, since it assumes that many who do would have paid for it otherwise, or that they even read the book or plan to.

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Some Japanese publishers have tried and most initiatives have failed as they have done poor market research (mainly not understanding international purchasing habits, poor marketing, or even worse have blindly believed previous eBook booms to include similar sales for manga or comics in general); while others have simply had their stances thaw out hoping to gain revenue streams or to prevent piracy.

I think the most important aspect of this story is that the publisher is setting up an internal infrastructure to monitor the ramifications of going DRM - Free and how this will effect eBook piracy.

The fact is that most (probably all of them) of those pirates would not buy his book even if eBook piracy didn't exist.

Most eBook publishers are not worried about eBook piracy, yet.

While most felt that piracy was not a huge issue, what was important was the ability for readers to find indie authors» works and be able to read them without a lot of hassle or hoop jumping, as well as how to make it possible for readers to choose to read on a variety of devices — even those from different retailers — without sacrificing their existing ebook libraries.

Despite some criticism about piracy concerns, Redmayne countered with evidence that piracy of the Harry Potter titles is actually 25 % lower than when the titles were only available in print; additionally, he recounted incidences when the ebooks were actually placed on file sharing websites, but most were quickly removed when it became known that all of the ebooks are sold with an embedded digital watermark, essentially tracking the person who uploaded the pirated copy.

One of the most blithe responses to ebook piracy has been that of Hugh Howey, who once jokingly quipped at an Amazon roundtable event at BookExpo America that he «loves» piracy.

With the drop in book sales, it is natural that authors and publishers, who have spent a huge amount of creativity and money into pushing a material into the public spectrum, are the most affected by ebook piracy.

It is high time that the millions of people who patronize ebook piracy see this issue from the perspective of the most affected and understand the impact of their actions.

The importance of DRM mainly stems from the fact that most publishers do not allow their eBooks to be distributed (sold or lent) without DRM due to piracy and control concerns.

These days, most large publishers have an author portal that includes a tab to «report eBook piracy.»

The goal of DRM is to protect eBooks against piracy and for the most part it does an effective job.

Publishers» fear of digital media piracy is the reason most require DRM to be used on their ebooks (with no regard for the problems that creates for consumers or the artificial barriers it crEates in the marketplace).

Most authors and publishers want their files to be protected from illegal copying and piracy, but the standard approach of applying Digital Rights Management (DRM) to eBook files comes with its own set of difficulties, especially if you are planning to sell your own eBooks.