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Originally Posted by pdurrant
If you are in a position in which really you cannot pay for ebooks, either though lack of funds, or because they are simply unavailable, I can understand why you might feel it reasonable to obtain them in other ways.
But to have money to spend on ebooks and then to spend it in such a way that none of it goes to the people who created the books you enjoy is unconscionable.
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One might have $50 but not $5000 which is what a virtual library might cost. So in that, there is a lack of funds. How can one make so that those money get to the authors? It would be like half a buck a book. Do you paypal Lee Childs - "Here's $10, I just read your series, it was great! Couldn't afford to buy it though, I'm not from the States so I couldn't loan them from a library but I felt I owed you something anyway"
If ebooks were that cheap - 2-3 dollars, the piracy would go down. It wouldn't be extinct, but still...
But then the writers would have to make a living by selling a lot more, which means they would have to either be great writers or find other jobs.