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Originally Posted by tompe
What does the author man to you and me anyway? So why not just download every book and not pay anything. Enough people pay for the author to continue to write so why would I care?
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Well now we're back to the idea that Consumers have some moral obligation to put aside their own best interests in order to falsely prop up the current structure of the author/agent/publisher/retailer structure. Next up will be the claim that unless everybody agrees to pay $12.99 for all their books, literacy will disappear from the face of the planet.
You may think that you need to act in such a manner, but I really don't. So I do what I do when I figure it is worth my while.
And while shipping costs etc usually make it more expensive to order a book overseas and have it shipped to your home, nobody stands around screaming at you that you are an immoral heathen that might as well just go steal books as buy from an International source. They just think you're weird and they wonder why your book covers look different from theirs.