Thread: Do you pirate books and why?
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Old 06-10-2012, 09:43 AM   #614
Josieb1
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When hubby and I first got our Kindles we spent a small fortune replacing paper books with ebooks, this was for our convienience. Luckily this was before agency pricing, whilst we didn't pirate books I can understand why people do as the prices, even then, for back list books were far more expensive than a paper book. Now my reading tastes have changed and I tend to read Indie ebooks, if we buy mainstream ebooks its only because they are on offer, the standard ebook prices are just far too expensive, and we never go near new releases any more.

Most of my ebooks come from non mainstream publishers and those are DRM free, that indicates a trust by those publishers that the readers will not pirate the books, the prices are reasonable as well. If you take away the need to pirate then most people wouldn't bother.
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