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These days, some of the pirating is done because of the price. $14.99 for an eBook is a lot of money. These are people who don't buy hardcover and try to find books at the lowest cost possible. Not everyone can afford $14.99 for an eBook. Even $12.99 is a lot. So what we have is the publishers pricing eBooks out of some people's ability to pay for them. So rather then pay what they cannot afford, they try to get it for free.
Some people pirate in order to try out an author given the high prices. If an eBook interests someone yet the price is $14.99 or $12.99 and the author is unknown (not read), then it may be pirated to check out if the author is liked.
Remember the original Napster caused sales of CDs to go up because people needed source to share and they found songs online they liked and wanted the full CD. Plus, back then, a lot of rips were not all that good. Napster caused CD sales to rise and the RIAA decided to shut it down.
What I do sometimes is split the cost of an eBook.
Last edited by JSWolf; 06-08-2012 at 09:42 PM.
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