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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Delightful response... "when they want to read controversial material, they should just pirate it. No problem."
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Teenagers don't steal. They also don't have sex, smoke weed and they certainly never ever drink alcohol.
I suggest you return to planet earth now. Once the kids start seeing their parents use ebook readers any kid over the age of twelve will know "get one of these and get all your further reading for free". They may just as well read the ebooks on the smartphones many of them have anyway. What you or I think about this is completely irrelevant. No one will be able to put that genii back into the bottle - not even the most draconian internet censorship laws - when you can basically put all the books you will ever care to read on a micro SD card that is smaller than your fingernail and costs less than 10 €. The kids don't even need the internet, they can use that nefarious sharing bazaar called school. Publishers should better start thinking about giving youth ebooks away for free to make money with the merchandise stuff.