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No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy is Not a Given-> 1

Submitted by adamengst
adamengst writes "David Pogue recently wrote a widely read blog post in which he explains that piracy is the reason he doesn't make his books available in PDF format. But in this article, TidBITS publisher Adam Engst disagrees strongly with Pogue's opinion, using sales numbers from the Take Control series of ebooks (150,000+ copies sold since 2004 with virtually no copying) as proof that making electronic versions not only doesn't necessary lead to piracy, it may be the best way of preventing illicit sharing."
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  • Now you can sell your eBooks in Kindle format at Amazon.com. It will cost your $250 to get an ISBN, take to weeks to get the numbers, then it will take you 60 to 90 days to get paid by Amazon. Not to mention they take their chunk first. OR, you could sell the book today, in about five minutes, from your web site, in PDF. Ever download a music file, Pogue? If you have then you have no right to complain about some one sharing your book. I concentrate on the sales, not the sales that could have been. I have

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