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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
There are those who have no problem with counterfeit items - but there is no way to make a system that everyone will buy into.
I would not think appealing to someone's greed would work.
Appealing to someone's desire for status...that's a different story. If publishers could be arsed to put out a good product with no typos, working TOC and *gasp* fixed the SFF maps - they could then compete. If I had the option of going to any legit seller and buy a quality item with no concerns or wasted time - that's what I'm going to do. I can't imagine digging through tons of files to find the correct virus free version I'm looking for.
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Well, a lot of the fan-produced ebooks from the 90s are better designed than the official versions that eventually replaced them 10 years later, and the more popular ones have been crowd-proofed too. As were a lot of the fan-made CDs from a vinyl source. But these days people tend to just pirate the official version, and unless someone proofs it then what you would get would be the same thing.