Hi all, I think that the "Massive wave of eBook piracy" is due to a correspondingly massive increase in ebook reading over the past year or two.
Personally, and I believe I am probably typical, I definitely prefer to purchase my ebooks. I have accounts with Amazon, Borders, B&N and buy from them regularly. However, when you see paperback mass market books selling for the same or even less than an e copy, what are we to think? that pBooks cost nothing to print distribute and stock? Or maybe we are being ripped off?
I am not trying to excuse piracy (I am sometimes guilty of it too), but it seems to me that a fair price reflecting the true cost of the ebook paid directly to the producer of the work would stop a great many people from stealing it.
