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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Ah. "Ebooks are not for the poor; they should read paper." Also, "making copies is stealing;" I never get tired of that. (Making unauthorized copies can be illegal and harmful and wrong; it still isn't "stealing," any more than breaking someone's arm is "stealing" his income. If you're really convinced it's wrong, you should be able to argue for that with accurate terminology.)
I really am baffled at the idea that, if ebooks are what I read and I'm on a tight budget, in order to sample a book by an author I don't know, I should get a used pbook I can destroy, chop the spine, convert to format of my choice, and read that... thus removing the pbook from circulation so nobody else can sample it, failing to pay the author any royalties, and having an ebook version that I can't share, so that anyone else who wants to make the ebook (like, perhaps, the author himself, when he reclaims the rights) will have to duplicate that effort.
Who, exactly, benefits from this scenario?
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You can get ebooks from the library. Has nothing to do with paper anymore. There are a lot of freebies DAILY as well. The point is that there are other legal ways to obtain books (ebook or paperback.)