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Originally Posted by sabredog
I think you will find that it DOES push locked out buyers to the darknet once they have exhausted all the means at their disposal to buy an ebook
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I think you're being generous. Most folks won't try that hard. For "exhausted all the means at their disposal" substitute "make a reasonable attempt". Myself, before the third or so estore has had the chance to refuse to sell to me, I'm already off to the darknet.
I'm absolutely certain the vast majority of ebook sharing on the darknets is done by hoarders, who likely don't read 1% of what they collect; most of them, in fact, are probably not readers at all.
Those of us who go to the darknet in search of actual reading material are almost certainly the small majority. I've downloaded hundreds of ebooks, most of which has been the electronic equivalent of hauling my shopping basket off to the coffee shop for winnowing -- the vast majority of my haul winds up back on the shelves (i.e., gets deleted).
In fact, I can only think of four darknet downloads I've actually read in the past few years. Harry Potter 7 was one, but I already had my preorder in at Amazon and was just checking out the infamous leaked copy. As to
The Lost Symbol -- well, let's just say, I don't reward my dog when it messes on the floor. Why should I treat Dan Brown any differently? The buck and a half he'd made from me for DVC was already far more than he deserved.
The other two were the first books of
The Bartemaus Trilogy and Paolini's
Eragon series. But I now have a complete set of both sitting on my shelves, so at least in my case, publishers are +6.