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Perhaps if people were allowed to buy the ebooks, they wouldn't want to download them illegally. Amazon, for example is perfectly happy to send a hard copy of a book from any country in the world to any other - post-free in some cases. But people in all countries are often prohibited from downloading those very same books legally. There is a limit to the number of hard copies of books that most people would want or be able to accommodate in their homes. Postal services are very unreliable and expensive in some countries. And when we are being encouraged to recycle all paper, does it really make sense to be shipping hard copies of books all round the world?
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