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Originally Posted by HarryT
I have done; that's how I know that it's true. Being a bit of an ebook "evangelist", when I see someone at work with a Kindle (which happens frequently these days) I'll always go and chat to them about ebooks. I'll tell them about Calibre, and Apprentice Alf, and the ease of removing DRM, and offer to show them how to do it all.
You know what? They just aren't interested. They don't care about collecting books, or using Calibre to store their ebook library, or removing DRM, or being able to convert books to other formats, or any of that crap which we think is so terribly important. They just buy a book from the Kindle Store, read it, and move on. DRM? They just don't give a damn.
This has been my personal experience time and time again.
We are NOT typical users.
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That is very typical. People tend not to do anything proactive. The trigger for people to start caring is usually that they must be personally impacted by something.
That is a short-sighted and disastrous way to think. Unfortunately it's how we're wired. As aware of that as I am, I can still think of fairly significant cases with in the last year or two where I've done that.
Like I said, give it a couple years. The personal impacts will come. They already are.
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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
The entire world does not consist of college students. The average Kindle user is a woman in her 50's 75% of Kindle users are over 35, and almost 40% are over 55. I don't think that there is a huge awareness of Pirate
Bay in this demographic, much less a desire to experiment with torrents.
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You seem to have missed something. I was a middle-schooler when I figured out how to pirate things, not a college student.
On the subject of most ereaders being older, I don't think that's necessarily true. It may be true that more people who have a dedicated reader are older, but don't forget there are other devices upon which you can read ebooks.
I have to disagree that they don't know what pirating is. A simple glance at the ebook piracy stats should make that beyond obvious.
My dad knows what Pirate Bay is. So do most of my older friends. And like I said, even if you don't, it takes 5 seconds to find out. You don't need to know what the problem is, what pirating is solving, or what pirating even is. None of that is necessary to pirate something. All you need is Google and frustration.
It's almost silly to debate this, as ebook pirating is on the rise, fueled by a combination of agency pricing insanity and being screwed out the first copy that they paid for. This older demographic seems to be learning the ropes just fine.