Thread: Kindle e-Book piracy accelerates - from CNET
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Old 02-22-2011, 06:03 AM   #43
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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian View Post
It doesn't. And the point that's overlooked again and again: of those who download King's entire oeuvre, how many would have bought the same at retail prices? Those who download "2500 Kindle ebooks", how many would have legally bought them if they hadn't been able to down them? Exactly.
I've never read anything by him, but I do have a couple of his paperbacks. I bought them second hand years ago for 10p each on a whim. I wonder how many billions of dollars he has lost because of this.
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