According to Adrian Hon, in The Author, and Daily Telegraph http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/100005867/your-time-is-up-publishers-book-piracy-is-about-to-arrive-on-a-massive-scale/ Digital rights management [DRM] locks have been circumvented on Adobe, Amazon and Barnes and Noble books so it takes sixty seconds to download a pirate ebook and email it to 100 friends. Most bestsellers are on oline hours after their release.
The solution, he says, is to make ebooks affordable at £2/3 and convenient , offer better royalties to authors and release the print version in a bundle with the ebook. Subscription services, like Spotify for music, may not be bad news if their taken up on a massive scale.
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