a:61:{s:15:"comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:14:"comment_author";s:8:"Magnus N";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:20:"magnus@billingska.se";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:17:"www.billingska.se";s:15:"comment_content";s:1525:"Great post as always.

As a bookseller trying to cope in this rapidly changing world I couldn't agree more.
We have earned ourselves a reputation as a bookstore that not only sell paperbooks but also ebooks. Over the counter.
But it's not enough, so we'll have to expand our little webshop to accommodate the (automated) process of selling ebooks there as well.

But it's expensive. Very expensive.

The webshop needs customized programming to communicate with the e-book distributors (we're hoping to have both our swedish as well as an english supplier) and that's not cheap.
And the licensing fees and the cost of the data feeds involved are huge.

And so far the amount of sale of e-books in Sweden isn't that huge as in USA (or England for that matter) but it'll probably get there.

The reason for doing all this of course, is a way to manage the declining sales of paperbooks. 

So when some pirates in Ukraine - or Sweden for that matter (PirateBay) steals all this stuff, pictures, movies, music and now books, it destroys on so many levels. 

I like your choice of words - I've often used it, when talking to my customers - "fencing". Because that's exactly what it is.
If anyone stole something and tried to sell it, not that many people would dare buy it or even touch it. They'd know it was wrong and illegal. Maybe even dangerous. But when it comes to a digital file, that line of thinking dissapears. A shame really.

Anyway, take care and keep those books coming. Love Nic Costa!

Magnus";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ip";s:14:"83.183.213.138";s:10:"user_agent";s:97:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; sv-SE; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13";s:8:"referrer";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:4:"blog";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:9:"user_role";s:0:"";s:21:"akismet_comment_nonce";s:6:"passed";s:11:"POST_author";s:8:"Magnus N";s:10:"POST_email";s:20:"magnus@billingska.se";s:8:"POST_url";s:17:"www.billingska.se";s:12:"POST_comment";s:1525:"Great post as always.

As a bookseller trying to cope in this rapidly changing world I couldn't agree more.
We have earned ourselves a reputation as a bookstore that not only sell paperbooks but also ebooks. Over the counter.
But it's not enough, so we'll have to expand our little webshop to accommodate the (automated) process of selling ebooks there as well.

But it's expensive. Very expensive.

The webshop needs customized programming to communicate with the e-book distributors (we're hoping to have both our swedish as well as an english supplier) and that's not cheap.
And the licensing fees and the cost of the data feeds involved are huge.

And so far the amount of sale of e-books in Sweden isn't that huge as in USA (or England for that matter) but it'll probably get there.

The reason for doing all this of course, is a way to manage the declining sales of paperbooks. 

So when some pirates in Ukraine - or Sweden for that matter (PirateBay) steals all this stuff, pictures, movies, music and now books, it destroys on so many levels. 

I like your choice of words - I've often used it, when talking to my customers - "fencing". Because that's exactly what it is.
If anyone stole something and tried to sell it, not that many people would dare buy it or even touch it. They'd know it was wrong and illegal. Maybe even dangerous. But when it comes to a digital file, that line of thinking dissapears. A shame really.

Anyway, take care and keep those books coming. Love Nic Costa!

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