There should be more options - for instance, long dead authors whose works are out of copyright in some places, but in copyright in others.
I wouldn't pirate a book by a living author, but if it's PD in Australia or Canada and not in the US, I'm not going to lose any sleep over not buying a copy...
Far more moral, if less legal, than people who happily read/download PD books from living authors who forgot to renew their copyright, or the people who grab those preorders from free from Amazon because they didn't get around to assigning a price yet.
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