Good e-Reader Radio – Kobo Vox, Amazon Format 8, and eBook Piracy

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Welcome to another edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show! Today we talk about the effect piracy has on publishers and authors. Many people are feeling the crunch of dwindling revenue because of the rampant growth of ebook piracy over the last few years. Today I talk about how piracy is attributed to specific age groups and what demographic of people are downloading more content from file sharing websites.

One of our feature stores is EPUB 3, HTML5, and Kindle Format 8! These are new ebook formats that are soon to become industry standards. They allow publishers and authors to add rich media and interactive content in their books. This will allow for a experience that is next generation and not the simple text you grew up with.

Lots of other news with imminent product releases, such as the Kobo Vox and Cybook Odyssey. Plus a whole lot more! A great show as always, so check it out.

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Markus Reily

Markus lives in San Francisco, California and is the video game and audio expert on Good e-Reader! He has a huge interest in new e-readers and tablets, and gaming.

Nards Barley

I totally agree about the need to reduce the prices of books and include advertising in ebooks in order to combat piracy. Plus, authors will eventually cut out the publishers at some point and just sell the ebooks on Amazon.com.

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I even see that your “Marcus” identity has its own appearance/photo associated with it.
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Michael: Yeah, we all had a big talk over the week on piracy and what companies could do to make money from it! Authors still gain visibility from their books when their pirated but the supply chain suffers. Allowing people to get free books with adverts would still help advertisers gauge the reach of the book and compile more statistics via Tracing Cookies and other things.

We’re testing out a new author profile system to build connections with our authors and our readership base. All of our main staff should have pictures up in the next few days!
Nards Barley

Yeah, visibility may help up and coming authors, but if someone becomes a John Grishman fan from a pirated book, they probably have his whole life work in a single file, with absolutely no incentive to every buy another. Of course popular books that become movies are an avenue some authors have to make money.