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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Seriously, I can't believe that you can come out in public and acknowledge that, yeah, the author worked for months or years on this book, but I'm going to steal it and not pay him/her because I can...
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What I can say is that if the author wants to make money on his/her work that he/she has slaved over they need to work with their publishers on a fair price for ebooks. For me this goes right back to the costs associated with ebooks. If an ebook costs more then aits paperback version then its ludicrous to expect people to buy it. Yes, it is illegal to steal books and it should be but making it illegal doesn't stop it from happening and yes there will always be people who steal digital files regardless of pricing in the market but I bet there would be a huge decrease if ebooks were priced fairly. I know, I know, now I've started a whole new argument about what is fair pricing for ebooks.
I would also like to see some well established authors selling their own works through their own private websites.