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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
But you're aware of the darknet, and where to find them.
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Do you assume everybody who buys things things like Kindle editions from Amazon knows about the darknet and where to find what they want to read? If you do, explain how Amazon manages to sell any Kindle editions at their default price, let alone other ebook sellers selling other volumes at even higher prices.
Most of the ebook buying market doesn't know about or chooses not to use the darknet, and simply pays for and downloads what they get.
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I bought my mother a Kindle for Christmas. I was talking to her recently, and she was pointing out to me that for some books her only way of getting them on the Kindle is to download dodgy copies. I didn't show her that.
My mother is from a working class background, she is, I think, tremendously intelligent and very sharp, but - she worked as a secretary, not a university professor... She had her 70th birthday a couple of years ago.
My point - if my not exactly cutting edge 70+ mother knows where to go to get dodgy books, I'm pretty much willing to bet a lot of other Kindle owners do too. As another person put it - the music, film and TV companies pretty much trained the population how to use filesharing.
Why would anyone pay for books from Amazon (or any other ebook store), because often it is the best thing to do. However, if a book isn't made available, or is unreasonably priced, then a person may decided they will get it somewhere else.
That is all way off topic, so just to give some semblance of being on topic
for £5 I may buy the occasional Bond book. The ones I have read are pretty rubbish, in my opinion, but occasionally entertaining, mostly in a 'can it really have been acceptable to say that' way. They are in the strange category where i'd not bother downloading them, they just don't appeal enough, but I could imagine being on holiday, fancying reading one and just grabbing the Kindle copy.