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Originally Posted by Kajti
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.
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Neil Young has said that pirated mp3s on the internet are the new radio for music artists. Perhaps it is time for a new model for publishing - perhaps something like the blank digital media tax, only on ebook readers.