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Originally Posted by Latinandgreek
I would be very interested in finding out how many people do pirate books as opposed to how many purchase them.
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For me the point of buying an ereader was that it meant I could stop paying for books, since huge numbers of books are easily found online. So compared to the dollar or three I paid for used paper books by mail, it paid for itself within a year (ereaders were more expensive back then). I've never paid for an ebook. Some of the books I've read on it were free giveaways, but the vast majority were pirated.
On the "if nobody paid, nobody would write," front, I doubt it. Even assuming that's true, all the stuff already online isn't going to vanish, so I could read a book a day (even sticking just to the types I like) and have reading material available for more decades that I have left to live.