Our friend Jorgen dropped off a link to a story at SFGate (San Francisco Chronicle) about what I think is going to be one of the biggest topics of conversation for the eBook Revolution in 2010.
As we all learned from the music industry’s struggle with piracy and illegal file sharing, it is something that exists because it’s so easy to reproduce digital content. It exists. It’s impossible to eradicate.
However, it only becomes a problem when digital content providers and producers charge too much for their titles and attempt to control their use by locking the files or making the formats proprietary.
It’s going to get worse with new eBook readers entering the market every other month, and as eBook reading is adopted by the mainstream. It will only get bad if the publishers and eBook distributors continue to charge too much money, lock their files and limit their usage.
It’s as simple as that, yah?
