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Old 08-24-2010, 08:53 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by delphidb96 View Post
It is *okay*, morally, for the publisher to deprive the customers of the ebook title - potentially for years - but it's *not* okay for the customers to find another source??? Right.

NOT!

If the title is withheld for no practical reason, then the copyright holder has only him/herself to blame for lost sales. "I can't be bothered" isn't a valid moral excuse for taking a book off the market and waiting to re-release.
"Deprive"? I just don't understand the whole sense of entitlement expressed here..."I deserve to have access to those books unless 'x or y' occurs". I just don't get it.

(not passing any judgements about piracy, or the ethics therein..I just don't get the whole "I deserve to have it because xxx" thing people bring up.."They didn't release it in English here" "She wouldn't release it in eBook form" etc. etc. )
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