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Originally Posted by Harmon
I think that most ladies feel entitled - i.e. expect - to have any digital product available:
(1) immediately
(2) at a reasonable price
(3) with a minimum of hassle
(4) in a format which works on her device
(5) for a one time payment
(6) in manner which does not impede sharing the product with friends
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These (and some of the responses following) are debatable; IE, while some are certainly reasonable, others may be expectations or habits from the past that don't necessarily translate to the present.
For instance, the sharing item is something that was done with printed books, but that does not have to be a component of ebooks, being that ebooks aren't physical products.
Other items listed are too open to interpretation to be useful parameters (How much is "reasonable" to you? How much "hassle" is too much for you?).
These qualities cannot be listed as some kind of "minimum requirement" to avoid piracy, since too many of the points are too nebulous, and essentially leave anyone open to declare a right to piracy if any one of these items doesn't satisfy them sufficiently ("the book was fifty cents too much... I'm stealing it").
The list of elements that satisfy the majority of the public must be more concrete, and the rest of the public should be made to understand that this applies to everyone. If extra dispensations can't be made for an individual, that's great; but it shouldn't be considered a requirement to doing business, nor to avoid being stolen from.