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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
For example it never occurred to me that buying a book in a second hand or thrift store would not contribute directly to the author. I am not against buying second hand books as it is legitimate and does get the author more recognition and like a library book someone bought that book and it was was only traded, lent or sold one copy at a time because it was physically gone from the shelves.
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How can it benefit the author, there is no control over it once it has made the first sale. It can be sold and re sold a thousand times over in thrift shops, charity shops and garage sales and the author gets nothing.
I was told recently that there was a file on a torrent site that had 10,000 ebooks in mobi and epub I think, which you can download and just drop on to your Kindle or Ipad. So what is the point of DRM, no one benefits? So isn't it time that writers stood up and said something?