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I do run into a dilemma with piracy. I have bought all of the Harry Potter books in hard back and most in paper back. So I have paid for them twice. I would pay for them as an e-book if they were available as an e-book. A part of me wants to download them from the darknet knowing that I will buy them when they are offically released. The rest of me knows that it would be wrong to do so.
Many authors know that the lack of an available title leads to people downloading it from the darknet. Jim Butcher's novel Changes was released When Penguin and Amazon had their dust up. I was one of many Kindle users posting on Jim's webpage and board asking him to put whatever pressure he had on Penguin to get this resolved. Jim's response was that he had no power to do so and that we could download it from the darknet like many other folks were already doing. He knew that the dust up was screwing his bottom line.
IT is very, very frustrating
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