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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Those in the third world who have access to computers and the internet -- even if it is via pay-by-the-hour internet cafes and similar shops -- and then can afford to buy a device to download to and read the books on, are not the ones who are really poor.
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I did say: "Consider a person lives in the third world, their average income is tiny by your rich first world standards, yet by local standards this person is well off."
Yet the ethics of the situation dont change. Someone who is poor by your standard is rich by someone elses, and might be able to afford to read e-books, which are much more affordable then printed books. Just because they can do that does not mean they can afford to pay for books in the quantity that you can. Or is the suggestion that if you are poor, your access to information should be artificially limited. Further, as I pointed out, e-book publishing territorial restrictions of legitimate books, disenfranchise large portions of the earth and prevent those people from accessing that information, even if they have the money. You cant complain people don't buy your book when you refuse to sell it to them.