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Originally Posted by tompe
Yes, but that you are thinking so is not an argument for that it is so. Why do you not have a time factor in your analysis? Why are you incurring some moral debt to do something at a future timepoint when according to you the first action was morally wrong anyway?
And why should you buy the eBook version? Why not send money to the author directly and not bother with a future eBook version? Why are you not morally required according to you to send money directly to the author?
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This is not my argument as such - it was the justification posted by many people here in July when the final HP book was released. I would have thought personally that anyone who DID use that argument WOULD feel obliged to buy the eBook should it be subsequently released, but perhaps not everyone shares my view of "how the world should be".
Why not send money to the author directly? Because a book is not only the results of the author's work. All sorts of people are involved in the production and sale of a successful book, from the publisher to the distributor. All deserve their share of the income from a sale. Many people here seem to be of the opinion that publishers are the "bad guys" in the book world, taking the lion's share of the income and doing little or nothing for it. I suspect that these people have never had a book published, and don't realise how much work the publisher does.