Why do People Pirate e-books?
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Pirate eBooks?????

Why the fuck not? Anything to increase a persons knowledge by reading an ebook. again, if you can pay for it, pay for it, but people like me who like to learn/read but have no $$ . Pirating is the answer for me...
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#12
I see where you're getting at, LZA, and I support that argument.

I would rather use my shelf space, however.
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(Jul 09, 2016, 09:51 am)gauchodee Wrote: Why not look at downloading books like borrowing from a public library?

If I download a book that I really like, I buy it.  For example, I downloaded the first novel in the "Expanse" series (Leviathon Wakes) and then bought the entire series.  I could have downloaded the entire series, but just like great movies are better on the big screen, great books are better in bound print.

I both collect and sell books.

Most of my book purchases are *real* books that I have read as etexts from such libraries as Libgen.

I consider the *value* of a book to lie in its physical medium and its qualities, like First Edition, or binding quality. The content simply defines the object.

The information contained, is of cultural, but not monetary value - much like a painting.

Imagine being charged for an image of the Mona Lisa.

Anything that is infinitely reproducible at near zero cost, has essentially infinite supply, and ergo minimal, if not zero value.

The challenge for authors of the future is to make readers WANT a physical, and preferably *signed* copy of their works.

A real economy must be based on real things, not 'information products'.
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