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I think the "If everything I wanted was available legally" category is particularly relevant to ebooks. There are still so many great books not available at all, for any price. My "Waiting to Be Kindlized Watch List" on ereaderiq includes titles by Carl Sagan, Colleen McCullough, Herman Wouk, Frederick Forsyth, Simon Schama, Antonia Fraser... these are not obscure authors, and the books are all still in print. These are not orphaned works but books by bestselling contemporary writers.
Before anyone pops up to say this doesn't justify illegal downloading... I'm not saying it does. But ebook readers are definitely still "underserved customers" when it comes to backlist titles.
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