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I like Steve's idea of the PRC for authors - but publishers are almost always the fly in the ointment.
I also like the idea of "bootleg" or "counterfeit." It does explain what happened. In thinking back - I was in school at the beginning of the Napster generation. I have never been much of an audiophile - my major love has always been books - but I can remember everyone being excited that you could get access to all those songs at anytime you wanted.
But do you know who was never excited about Napster in college? Any audiophile I met. They were more concerned about sound quality and the rest of those important music items. They would always laugh at people listening to bootleg music.
In thinking about it, I wouldn't want to go through the trouble of locating and downloading a bootleg CD. Sound quality can be iffy, there's the possibility of d/l a virus, and I'd rather get my items from a legitimate place.
I'm also not much into purses but I don't know a fashionista that would be caught dead with a bootleg handbag.
Which makes me think that people need to assign some type of (status maybe?) showing that a legitimate ebook from a legitimate seller is a better quality item. Of course, this is impossible at this time because publishers currently do NOT supply a better quality of work.
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