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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i recently was on the Diesel Books site. i wanted to try Ian Rankin, because i have heard good reviews about his Inspector Rebus series. however, of the 17 books in this series, the earliest one i could buy was number 13. so instead i will go to the library, even though there they will be in french.
granted, in this case i'm doing nothing dishonest, however it is still a lost sale (and potentially 17 lost sales, or more) from the publisher's point of view, and through their own fault, because they did not bother to make the series available from the beginning. i was completely ready to buy the book, and if i liked the first one i would have bought the rest of the series as well.
so i also can understand the point JSWolf is making.
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There is someone in another thread looking for the L. E. Modesitt Recluse series in eBook form. The only ones I could find were 12 & 13 in BBeB format and 14 in MS Reader & the 14th in Mobipocket format from BooksOnBoard and Fictionwise. This is why some people turn to the darknet. You try to o it legal. You want to do it legal. But the publisher won't allow it. And in this case, I don't have a problem if you purchase the pBook editions and then go to the darknet to get the eBook versions. since there is no legal eBook. But at least by purchasing the pBooks, you do give the author his due. True it's not legal, but morally I don't mind. Now if you had the pBook version and there was an eBook version, going to the darknet to get the eBook is wrong.