Pirate Ebooks

[Keith Cogswell]

We can begin with the proposition that ebooks are clearly the tsunami of the future for reading. It is not that the demand for pbooks will disappear entirely, just that ebooks will become greater than a majority share of the book market. One would think that publishers would want to grab the brass ring early while they can still steer the market.

Interestingly, I think that if the Big 6 changed their focus and pushed ebooks, they could easily pickup some of the best indie authors and publish them in ebook-only versions. The biggest problem that the indie authors have that the Big 6 could solve for them is getting the word out that they have a new book available.

I think three changes need to be made. First, publishers need to wrap themselves around ebooks as their future and start pushing them and doing so by pushing readers toward ebooks. Second, they need to come up with a way to make brick-and-mortar bookstores relevant as showrooms for ebooks. Failure to make these changes is likely to exacerbate the decline of the Big 6. Agency pricing at current levels is really only a stopgap measure, not a sustainable plan for the future. Third, the Big 6 have to change their attitude toward indie authors and start looking to become the publisher of the better indie authors by offering intensive, high-quality marketing (along, of course, with better royalties than the standard pbook royalty scheme).

As a follow up to your comments of $14.99 books, I have a huge backlog of unread books. When I see a book that I want but feel the ebook cost are too high, I use eReaderIQ.com to watch for what I feel is a reasonable cost.

eBooks are the future and publishers need to embrace it. It may be their demise since it will empower self publishers more. Big 6 Publishers completely take advantage of authors with their rip-off contracts.

Now back to print, and how the decline of print further disadvantages traditional publishers and their authors. As ebooks as a reading format take share from print, print distribution to brick and mortar bookstores becomes less valuable to authors. Back in the dark ages of publishing five years ago, if an author wanted to reach readers, they had little choice but to work with a traditional publisher, because not only did the publisher control the printing press, they more importantly controlled access to brick and mortar bookstore distribution.

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This is a post that is the last in a series that covers my investigation of web based book piracy, you can find the other articles here, they are all linked. I started this personal investigation as an author because I could not believe that the blatant piracy of ebooks existed without any fear of lawful retribution.

I have determined who is probably behind the site that pirated my books or at least the Russian who created it. I have examined the impressive architecture of the site it-ebooks.info and tried to explain the affected parties and their motivations. I have also examined the economics of this web site to determine the potential benefits to the pirate involved.

I think that this will be the last article that I write on this subject and I wanted to bring a surprising fact to your attention. The fact that at least one of the major online publishers seems to have capitulated to the pirates.

Tim O'Reilly wrote an article in 2002 that stated that piracy allows unknown authors to get noticed. To paraphrase Tim he states that he is not worried about piracy as long as he reaches a sales target for a book. Also in a later article in 2006 he states that he has learned seven lessons as a publisher.

This seems to me to be leftist nonsense, I should think of a web pirate as a tax collector ? Is this person passing on the tax to the needy ? Or is it that those who don't have the money would not buy anyway ? But would those that have the money buy if they could download for free ?

Yes I agree with this.

So having examined Tim's lessons and read his articles about ebook piracy it seems to me that O'Reilly has capitulated to the pirates and no longer worries about them. I think that this saves them part of their sales margin that was used for chasing piracy. Often if a business model is profitable so other retailers

will follow and perhaps this has been the case ?

I showed that the owner/creator of the pirate web site it-ebooks.info was Russian and had made quite a gain from his site in terms of income and hits. I'm sure that Artur Denisov is a moral character but what if he were not ? What if, as is often the case when there is a lack of policing, that organized crime had seen an

opportunity ? Could it be that the Russian mafia are in the business of ebook piracy ?

That is just a possible scenario but would that not be an extra lesson for Tim ? If ebook piracy helps web sales along then could the Russian mafia be acting as an online publisher sales tool ? Not an association that they would be pleased with ?

Would the price of an ebook affect both sales and the possibility of piracy ? If a down loader had to decide between the possibility of prosecution and the cost of a book would a cheaper book not sway his choice ? Does the decision not to police and chase piracy not also impact this decision both for the buyer and the pirate ?

I mentioned in my last article that brands are difficult to build and need to be protected. I'm not decided on whether it is true that web piracy helps the obscure author, but I do think that the author should be asked before policing of piracy is forgotten. I also think that it is easy to talk about "progressive taxation" once you are successful.

As a final comment, what happens if organized crime decides to move up the food chain and become involved in a publisher's business ? Would the publisher then decide that non policing had been a wise idea ?

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