The following essay, Why the commercial ebook market is broken by Charlie Stross makes some excellent points about the current state of the eBook market. I especially liked, and agree with, his views on the reasons why eBook piracy exists. —Ed.
Why the Commercial eBook Market is Broken
(Note: In the following rant, I’m sticking to American currency and prices because (a) they’re relatively familiar to non-Americans, and (b) they’re where I’ve got the hardest data. Not to mention (c) being where the market I’m talking about is — or isn’t.)
I’ve been ruminating for a whole long time now about the dog that didn’t bark in the nighttime world of publishing — the coming ebook revolution, which has been coming now for something like 20 years and counting without much sign of actually arriving.
In point of fact, ebook sales figures are dismal. At best, they tend towards 20% of hardcover sales by volume — and that’s for ebooks that are available in open formats that are not tied to a particular hardware platform, and that are not crippled by DRM (digital rights management) encryption schemes that prevent users from reading them on more than one machine. DRM-infested ebooks sell an order of magnitude fewer copies, in many cases not even covering the cost of taking the existing typeset masters and saving them in an ebook format.
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Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys, by Dugald Butler and Herbert Story 21688
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/8/21688 ]
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The Youngest Girl in the Fifth, by Angela Brazil 21687
[Subtitle: A School Story]
[Illustrator: Stanley Davis]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/8/21687 ]
[Files: 21687.txt; 21687-8.txt; 21687-h.htm]
Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, by R.L. Stevenson 21686
[Full author: Robert Louis Stevenson]
[Subtitle: Vol. 1 (of 25)]
[Commentator: Andrew Lang]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/8/21686 ]
[Files: 21686.txt; 21686-8.txt; 21686-h.htm]
The Cockatoo's Story, by Mrs. George Cupples 21685
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/8/21685 ]
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Opúsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo 08, by Alexandre Herculano 21684
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/8/21684 ]
[Files: 21684-8.txt]
Gli duoi fratelli rivali, by Giambattista Della Porta 21683
[Editor: Vincenzo Spampanato]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/8/21683 ]
[Files: 21683-8.txt]
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America, by Fearing Burr 21682
[Subtitle: Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred
Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation,
Culture and Use.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/8/21682 ]
[Files: 21682.txt; 21682-8.txt; 21682-h.htm]
A Little Traitor to the South, by Cyrus Townsend Brady 21681
[Subtitle: A War Time Comedy With a Tragic Interlude]
[Illustrator: A. D. Rahn and C. E. Hooper]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/8/21681 ]
[Files: 21681.txt; 21681-8.txt; 21681-h.htm]
Die Jungfrau von Treiden, by Adelbert Cammerer 21680
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/8/21680 ]
[Files: 21680-8.txt; 21680-h.htm]
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. III (of X), by Francis W. Halsey 21679
[Full title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose.
Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I]
[Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/7/21679 ]
[Files: 21679.txt; 21679-8.txt; 21679-h.htm]
Tales of Giants from Brazil, by Elsie Spicer Eells 21678
[Ill.: Helen M. Barton]
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Milton, by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh 21677
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Confessions of a Caricaturist, by Oliver Herford 21676
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[Files: 21676.txt; 21676-8.txt; 21676-h.htm]
Quaint and Curious Advertisements, by Henry M. Brooks 21675
[Full title: The Olden Time Series, Vol. 4: Quaint and Curious
Advertisements]
[Subtitle: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and
Salem, Massachusetts]
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The Making of a Soul, by Kathlyn Rhodes 21674
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Iloisia juttuja III, by Kaapro Jääskeläinen 21673
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/7/21673 ]
[Files: 21673-8.txt]
Westminster Abbey, by Mrs. A. Murray Smith 21672
[Ill.: John Fulleylove]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/7/21672 ]
[Files: 21672.txt; 21672-8.txt; 21672-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20070506204043smith]
Army Boys on the Firing Line, by Homer Randall 21671
[Subtitle: or, Holding Back the German Drive]
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[Files: 21671.txt; 21671-8.txt; 21671-h.htm; ]
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Edison's Conquest of Mars, by Garrett Putnam Serviss 21670
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/7/21670 ]
[Files: 21670.txt; 21670-8.txt; 21670-h.htm]
F. Chopin, by Franz Liszt 21669
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/6/21669 ]
[Files: 21669-8.txt; 21669-0.txt; 21669-h.htm]
The Complex Vision, by John Cowper Powys 21668
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[Files: 21668.txt; 21668-8.txt; 21668-h.htm]
Hollowmell, by E.R. Burden 21667
[Subtitle: or, A Schoolgirl's Mission]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/6/21667 ]
[Files: 21667.txt; 21667-h.htm]
Uncle Rutherford's Nieces, by Joanna H. Mathews 21666
[Subtitle: A Story for Girls]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/6/21666 ]
[Files: 21666.txt; 21666-8.txt; 21666-h.htm]
English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 (of 2), by Meiklejohn 21665
[Full title: A Brief History of the English Language and Literature,
Vol. 2 (of 2)]
[Full author: John Miller Dow Meiklejohn]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/6/21665 ]
[Files: 21665-8.txt; 21665-0.txt; 21665-h.htm]
George at the Fort, by Harry Castlemon 21664
[Subtitle: Life Among the Soldiers]
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Aunt Mary, by Mrs. Perring 21663
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Hawthorn and Lavender, by William Ernest Henley 21662
[Subtitle: with Other Verses]
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Impressions of a War Correspondent, by George Lynch 21661
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[Clearance: 20040924060423lynch]
An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England, Cheyney 21660
[Author: Edward Potts Cheyney]
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[Files: 21660.txt; 21660-8.txt; 21660-h.htm; ]
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Some Everyday Folk and Dawn, by Miles Franklin 21659
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/5/21659 ]
[Files: 21659.txt; 21659-8.txt; 21659-h.htm]
Ehstnische Märchen, by Friedrich Kreutzwald 21658
[Commentator: Anton Schiefner and Reinhold Köhler]
[Translator: Ferdinand Löwe]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/5/21658 ]
[Files: 21658-8.txt; 21658-h.htm]
Deep Furrows, by Hopkins Moorhouse 21657
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/5/21657 ]
[Files: 21657.txt; 21657-8.txt]
The Princess of the School, by Angela Brazil 21656
[Illustrator: Frank Wiles]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/5/21656 ]
[Files: 21656.txt; 21656-8.txt; 21656-h.htm]
The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8), by Guy de Maupassant 21655
[Subtitle: Une Vie and Other Stories]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/5/21655 ]
[Files: 21655.txt; 21655-8.txt; 21655-h.htm]
In and Around Berlin, by Minerva Brace Norton 21654
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/5/21654 ]
[Files: 21654.txt; 21654-8.txt; 21654-h.htm]
The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze, by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze 21653
[Contributor: M. E. Sadler]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/5/21653 ]
[Files: 21653.txt; 21653-8.txt; 21653-h.htm]
Klondike Nuggets, by E. S. Ellis 21652
[Subtitle: and How Two Boys Secured Them]
[Illustrator: Orson Lowell]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/5/21652 ]
[Files: 21652.txt; 21652-8.txt; 21652-h.htm]
Los muertos mandan, by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 21651
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/5/21651 ]
[Files: 21651-8.txt; 21651-h.htm]
London Town, by Felix Leigh 21650
[Illustrator: Thomas Crane
Ellen Houghton]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/5/21650 ]
[Files: 21650.txt; 21650-h.htm, 21650-pdf.pdf]
A Cluster of Grapes, by Various 21649
[Subtitle: A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/4/21649 ]
[Files: 21649.txt; 21649-8.txt; 21649-h.htm]
Westminster, by Besant, Mitton and Smith 21648
[Full author: Sir Walter Besant and Geraldine Edith Mitton and
A. Murray Smith]
[Subtitle: The Fascination of London]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/4/21648 ]
[Files: 21648.txt; 21648-8.txt; 21648-h.htm]
Subspace Survivors, by E. E. Smith 21647
[Author AKA: Edward Elmer Smith]
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[Files: 21647.txt; 21647-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20070305175424smith]
How to Become Rich, by William Windsor 21646
[Subtitle: A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions
and Matrimony]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/4/21646 ]
[Files: 21646.txt; 21646-8.txt; 21646-h.htm; ]
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The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees, by Mary Caroline Crawford 21645
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/4/21645 ]
[Files: 21645.txt; 21645-8.txt; 21645-h.htm]
Every Man for Himself, by Hopkins Moorhouse 21644
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/4/21644 ]
[Files: 21644.txt; 21644-8.txt; ]
[Clearance: 20070519134643moorhouse]
The Kensington District, by Geraldine Edith Mitton 21643
[Subtitle: The Fascination of London]
[Editor: Walter Besant]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/4/21643 ]
[Files: 21643.txt; 21643-8.txt; 21643-h.htm]
Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience, by Adelaide Cadogan 21642
[Full title: Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire
or Patience]
[Subtitle: New Revised Edition, including American Games]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/4/21642 ]
[Files: 21642.txt; 21642-8.txt; 21642-h.htm]
Audio: Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris 21605
[Audio reading by Mark F. Smith ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/0/21605 ]
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Audio: War is Kind by Stephen Crane 21606
[Audio reading by Chip ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/0/21606 ]
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21606-ogg.ogg; 21606-m4b.m4b; 21606-spx.spx ]
Audio: Three Short Works by Gustave Flaubert 21604
[Audio reading by David Barnes ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/0/21604 ]
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Audio: The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton 21603
[Audio reading by Martin Clifton ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/6/0/21603 ]
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Prudence Says So, by Ethel Hueston 21635
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Fame and Fortune, by Horatio Alger, Jr. 21632
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Kotka-Wappu, by Wilhelmine von Hillern 21631
[Subtitle: Kertomus Tyrolin vuoristosta]
[Translator: Elisabeth Löfgren]
[Language: Finnish]
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Bibliomania in the Middle Ages, by Frederick Somner Merryweather 21630
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The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. II - Rome, by Various 21629
[Full title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose.
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[Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge and Francis W. Halsey]
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Imaginary Conversations and Poems, by Walter Savage Landor 21628
[Subtitle: A Selection]
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Gambler's World, by John Keith Laumer 21627
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Adrift in the Wilds, by Edward S. Ellis 21626
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Play the Game!, by Ruth Comfort Mitchell 21625
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Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography, by George William Erskine Russell 21624
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Usury, by Calvin Elliott 21623
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Architects of Fate, by Orison Swett Marden 21622
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The Story of Garfield, by William G. Rutherford 21621
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The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, by Henry R. Schoolcraft 21620
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The Tale of Nimble Deer, by Arthur Scott Bailey 21619
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That Affair Next Door, by Anna Katharine Green 21617
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The Ape, the Idiot & Other People, by W. C. Morrow 21616
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Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3), by Isaac D'Israeli 21615
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For the Temple, by G. A. Henty 21614
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem]
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On the Stairs, by Henry B. Fuller 21613
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A Child of the Glens, by Edward Newenham Hoare 21612
[Subtitle: or, Elsie's Fortune]
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The Runaway, by Unknown 21611
[Subtitle: The Adventures of Rodney Roverton]
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The Secret of the Creation, by Howard D. Pollyen 21610
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Society, by Henry Kalloch Rowe 21609
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The Dawn of Reason, by James Weir 21608
[Subtitle: or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals]
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Adrift in the Ice-Fields, by Charles W. Hall 21607
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Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory, by George Saintsbury 21600
[Subtitle: (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)]
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Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant, by Richard Barnum 21599
[Subtitle: His Many Adventures]
[Illustrator: Harriet H. Tooker]
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[Files: 21599.txt; 21599-h.htm]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893,by Various 21598
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/5/9/21598 ]
[Files: 21598.txt; 21598-8.txt; 21598-h.htm]
Jersey Street and Jersey Lane, by H. C. Bunner 21597
[Subtitle: Urban and Suburban Sketches]
[Illustrator: A. B. Frost
B. West Clinedinst
Irving R. Wiles
Kenneth Frazier]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/5/9/21597 ]
[Files: 21597.txt; 21597-8.txt; 21597-h.htm]
American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890,by Various 21596
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/5/9/21596 ]
[Files: 21596.txt; 21596-8.txt; 21596-h.htm]
American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 2, February, 1896, by Various 21595
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/5/9/21595 ]
[Files: 21595.txt; 21595-8.txt; 21595-h.htm]
Fred Fenton on the Crew, by Allen Chapman 21594
[Subtitle: or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/5/9/21594 ]
[Files: 21594.txt; 21594-8.txt; 21594-h.htm]
Das Urteil, by Franz Kafka 21593
[Subtitle: Eine Geschichte]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/5/9/21593 ]
[Files: 21593-8.txt; 21593-0.txt; 21593-h.htm]
The Art of Making Whiskey, by Anthony Boucherie 21592
[Subtitle: So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater
Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain]
[Translator: C. M.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/5/9/21592 ]
[Files: 21592.txt; 21592-8.txt; 21592-h.htm]
The Harbours of England, by John Ruskin 21591
[Illustrator: J. M. W. Turner]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/5/9/21591 ]
[Files: 21591.txt; 21591-8.txt; 21591-h.htm]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890, by Various 21590
[Editor: Francis Burnand]
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Audio: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 21589
[Audio reading by Kristin Luoma ]
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Audio: The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame 21588
[Audio reading by Mark F. Smith ]
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Audio: The Parasite by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 21587
[Audio reading by Carl Vonnoh, III ]
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[Audio reading by Robin Cotter ]
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Audio: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 21585
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Audio: The Iliad for Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church 21584
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Problems of Immanence, by J. Warschauer 21496
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