However, e-books, like all forms of entertainment,
aren't mandatory... you won't die without them, and they don't keep a roof over your head, feed you, or get you to work. The market may be different, but you are free to walk away, you are not conscripted to buy something you don't want. So, if they are not reasonably priced and packaged for you, your job is to
leave them alone and find something else to do.
I buy e-books. But I buy e-books the way I want them, that is, in a form that assures me I can read it for as long as I want to. If a book is not so packaged, I don't buy it. If a book is so packaged, but too high-priced for me,
I don't buy it. And I don't go looking for pirated copies, either.
This means that I buy very few e-books. But I do buy. And if producers want me to buy more, they know what they have to do to make that happen.
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Originally Posted by RWood
If a product is easy to use and reasonably priced people will buy it even if they could pirate it.
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Exactly right.