Thread: E-books drive older women to digital piracy
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Old 05-25-2011, 03:43 PM   #113
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS View Post
Has anyone actually looked at the survey?

I found this and this, and while they both say 2010, I'm guessing that the first link actually refers to 2011.

Anyway, in the first link, which matches the number of consumers in the article linked in the OP, the key findings on piracy are:
I can't access the link where I currently am, but that wouldn't surprise me, actually. How many people went from Napster to a radio subscription service like Pandora, I wonder. The issue in many cases wasn't so much the price, but rather the convenience.

I'd like to see a breakdown (impossible I know) between Pirated-Books-That-Have-Legal-Versions-Available-In-Most-Electronic-Formats and Pirated-Books-That-Do-NOT-Have-Legal-Versions-Available.

I.e., how many of these pirated books are books that simply can't be bought in e-book form at the moment. If there is a large discrepancy (i.e., 75% of all pirated e-books are books that don't have a legal e-book version available), then that would say to me that the issue here isn't cost at all, but format and convenience.
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