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Originally Posted by HarryT
Suppose Ms. Rowling were to have a change of heart and permit all 7 HP books to be released as e-Books. What proportion of the people who have illegal copies of them do you believe would buy the legal versions?
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I think the very nature of people who would download an illegal copy of an e-book in the first place would, in most cases, preclude them from feeling they need to pay for a legal version later. In other words, most of them will find some way to rationalize a reason to not bother, just as they rationalized a reason for knowingly taking the illegal e-book.
There have also been comments as to how some reason that possessing the printed book means they have a right to a free e-book (and, by extension, possessing a hardback gives them a right to a free paperback. I'm still trying to figure out that one.).