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Originally Posted by boxcorner
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The author of the article,
severely misinterprets what piracy is about. It's not, as far as I can tell, a situation where consumers are going to respond to value-added e-books. When someone wants an e-book, they want the
content. Adding premium content to an e-book is going to do exactly nothing to get people to buy it when they can get it for free with the content they're actually interested in reading. Similarly, while I think typos and such are definitely an issue with e-books, it's hard for me to imagine that you're going to get more people to buy by only assuring them that they'd get the same thing they'd get if they bought the paper version.
There will always be a certain number of people who will go for the free version of an e-book. The only thing you can do is to make obtaining a pirated copy of an e-book as painful as humanly possible. I certainly don't agree with suing anyone who downloads form a site, but anyone who hosts such files needs to be given as much grief as is allowable under the constitution of his/her country. It's the people doing the hosting that are the problem, not the ones doing the downloading.
Do I have any idea how this could be done? Not really, but pretending that piracy exists because people are upset with the quality of e-books is delusional. Piracy exists because people like getting stuff for free, and will push ethical boundaries if they feel anonymous.