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Originally Posted by mike_bike_kite
The ebook piracy will always be there while ebook prices are so high and pirated copies are so easily available. Manufacturers realise this otherwise they wouldn't sell the devices with 4GB of storage. Filling such a device with legal books would cost approx $28000. That's not going to happen and even downloading the complete works of Shakespear and Dickens isn't going to alter that price much. It's the same story with mp3 players - it costs a similar amount to fill an old ipod with music.
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In my view, manufacturers provide storage to keep up with other devices - to make the spec. look good. I doubt that many people fill their readers (though a few will of course). I don't think that it's to accommodate pirated books.
With MP3 players, it's different, because lots of people have large music collections. I have over 100GB, so would like a player with 200GB to provide growth room. Alas, I've only been able to get 64GB in solid state - but this will change. All my music is ripped from CDs that I've bought - perhaps 1000 albums. At, say, £5 each, that's only £5000 over 20 years - hardly an impractical level of spending.
My point is that I don't think that reader storage is there for pirated books, and the MP3 storage is legitimately large and needs, for me at least, to be larger.