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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It seems that publishers do stupid things these days like put out the latest book in a series as an eBook but forget about the book(s) that come before. if you find this to be true with something you want to read, would you download the book(s) that come before and purchase the new one or would you just read the pBook editions and then the latest one as an eBook?
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Oh how true this is. Man, I hate it.
And I start up my colloquy IRC client and to some pinging and searching and !ing and /me ing and try to find the stuff that's missing.
Because I refuse to buy another paper book for myself. I mail the author, I post in the author's blog / forum, I email the publisher ... but if they say "oh, ebooks are not interesting to us" the I use the darknet versions I find and spend hours deciphering the crappy OCR.
Oh, and I am in a constant state of broke-ness (what with my start-up and all), so I can't afford to buy $25 ebooks to "send a message" to authors and publishers. I'd really like to help the cause, but helping costs money, and if it#s a choice between buying the latest novel, or buying a week's worth of lunch, then lunch it is.