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Originally Posted by NightGeometry
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.
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But convenience rules. Your 70+ year old mother might be aware of where to find dodgy tiles, but can she do it from her Kindle?
What the Kindle offers is instant gratification. Any time, day or night, access Amazon, buy, download, and start reading a Kindle edition.
Sure, you can read dodgy content. But you probably need to actually get it from a PC or a laptop, possibly have to convert it to a form the Kindle will display, then side-load to the Kindle to read it.
An awful lot of folks who
could so may simply not want to bother. The convenience of getting of one-stop shopping and getting it right away with a few mouse clicks is worth money to them, and they'll happily spend it for the purchase.
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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.
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They may, though more likely, I think, in the "isn't made available" case, where the option for electronic content is to go looking for someone's scan and conversion, and hope you can find one that's decent quality and in a form you can read, or successfully convert to a form you can read.
"Unreasonably priced" is thornier, as what a "reasonable price" is will vary depending on who you talk to, and there's an awful lot of unreality about how cheap an ebook from a major publisher
can be.
But ultimately, I think enough of the market is honest and will pay for what they get to make ebooks a successful product for publishers without forcing users to jump through DRM hoops.
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That is all way off topic, so just to give some semblance of being on topic 
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It's perfectly on topic for MR, even if it's afield from this thread.
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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.
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I read them all in paper, back when, and may still have the paper copies. Mores have certainly changed in the intervening years. I'm vaguely curious as to what my reaction would be to them these days. But not curious enough to make any effort to re-read them. My unread stack is large enough that I tell people the good thing about ebooks is that you don't have to call the paramedics if it topples over on me.
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Dennis