Thread: "Most e-books in The Netherlands are not paid for."
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Old 02-05-2014, 01:52 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967 View Post
There's a distinct anomaly between the first two paragraphs you quote. The first seems to suggest that anything that wasn't paid for is illegal; the second acknowledges that "free" doesn't necessarily equal "illegal".
Oh, he didn't quote what our local newspaper headlined with:

Ebooks stolen wholesale [rough translation]
Only 10% of the 128 million books on Dutch e-readers is paid for. A signal that illegal downloading is rising and threatens publishers and writers.

In that title it doesn't say a thing about that maybe most of those not-paid for ebooks might have been freebies... You'll have to read the entire story before they (grudgingly) admit that some of those not-paid for books might not be pirated but rather given away... (or from Gutenberg, smashwords, etc)
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