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Originally Posted by strangeseraph
Here's a potential situation: JKR will not let her books be published in ebook format because of potential piracy... So would it be wrong to download the text versions of the books?
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Yes, because they were illegally obtained, and JKR did not get paid for them.
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Originally Posted by strangeseraph
or is it wrong not to offer them at all?
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JKR has the right to say her books can be printed on paper, put on film, or chiseled into stone tablets. You may not like her choice of mediums, but it's still her decision to make, not yours.
If you don't like it, demonstrate by not buying her books... vote with your wallet. I assure you, if JKR thought she wasn't going to get the money she wanted from print books, she'd be putting out e-books now.