1. Releasing software as shareware or freeware is the programmer's choice. If an author wished to release an eBook as shareware or freeware, there's no problem with that. Why do you think it's a problem for eBooks?
2. Because they don't see audio books as their main income source, I'd guess.
Paul
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Originally Posted by Olympus
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 :-)
2: 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
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