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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Depriving an author of income is the same as not paying an employee morally. Taking a product without paying the asking price is every bit as much stealing in the case of ebooks as it is in a physical product.
Helen
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Reading a book doesn't exactly equate to depriving an author of income though...
At what point in the reading should this income transfer occur? Or should it occur at the point of downloading (KDP Select). Should we be entitled to the first chapter of every book, or the first two chapters? 299 pages out of 300?
Would taking a used bookstore's entire stock without paying and then sending the cover price of each book directly to the author be considered stealing, or good moral practice?