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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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That's just plainly wrong. I just measured the storage of my ebooks on my MacBook: it is 2GB. I haven't paid more than $200 for it and they are all legal. And I don't have the complete works of Shakespeare and Dickens, just one or two of each. And they aren't all old works either. There are more ways to legally acquire ebooks than buying overpriced items.