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I would like to create morde ripples in this discussion
1: As some her like to compare the e-book piracy with software, I ould like to point out that even in software world we have/had "share-ware", "card-ware", "free-ware"
ZIP, Total Commander, WinAmp are some of the products I used for years as shareware, yet when I had the means to pay the creators for their work I finally did.
I guestimate that for each payed shareware version 100 versions are not payed for - could somebody explain to me why this seems to be OK for software but not for e-books
2: e/p books are most likely consumed one time much unlike music tracks.
A person is likely to reuse a particular mp3-track without too much effort.
DVD's are now reasonabily priced that can watch a movie in the comfort of my own house for the price of 2 persons that go to a theatre.
I do give/lend my p-books to friends and family as I will almost certainly not reread a book (just too much on my to-read pile :-)
3: publishers do not scream too much over the "lost" sales of audio books.
Why do they fear e-book "piracy" yet they accept a-book piracy so easily
Last edited by Olympus; 08-12-2008 at 07:23 AM.
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