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No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy Is Not a Given

Posted by timothy on from the not-necessarily dept.

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 necessarily lead to piracy, it may be the best way of preventing illicit sharing."

2 of 268 comments (clear)

  1. Maclover by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    He loves Mac, that makes him a jackass by definition. The idiot loves DRM and no wonder he opposed to open format

  2. David who ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck him, I don't need to read his shitty writing.