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Originally Posted by xg4bx
as a horror fan, many times authors release very limited edition hardcovers and those hardcovers sell for anywhere from $50-$150.theyre the only place one can get the book, theres no trade or ebook edition unless someone should post a pdf of it. is it right? no, but not many can afford $100 for a novella. i look at that as a case of getting a book into the hands of fans.
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Uhhhh.... Yeah, that doesn't work. As molman stated, that is false logic. Regardless of whether a $100 novella is overpriced or not, it doesn't really follow that it's okay to download a pirated copy. That's like my saying that a $400,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom is far too expensive for me to buy, so it's okay that I steal it.
Understand that I'm not really judging you for the action; go ahead and do what you want. It's water off my back. There are plenty of members here who download stuff like that. All I'm saying is, it's not really a justification.
(Note: Please no one start a flame war on whether downloading a pirated ebook does or does not equate to stealing. I've heard it before. Let's move on.)
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i've bought faaaaaar more books in my life than i could ever conceiveably take but not all "pirates" are scums out to steal food from authors mouths. many times readers,myself included, are just looking to get a digital edition of books they already own.
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There are even more people who do that. While there are certainly arguments against this, too, it is actually something that I can understand. Not saying it's necessarily right or legal, but I can see why one would do that.