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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
I didn't forget anything, it may be true that downloading is legal, but that's not relevant.
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There is no "may be" about it. It is true.
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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
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Most e-books that reside on Dutch e-readers are not paid for. This is shown through statistics provided by market research company GfK. On average, a bit below 10 percent of e-books is actually paid for; all the rest is acquired by illegal means.
On average, a Dutch e-reader contains 117 e-books, 11 of which are paid for, says Algemeen Dagblad, based on the numbers provided by GfK. The rest is either free, or acquired through illegal means such as Torrent-sites or Usenet (newsgroups). The exact percentage of books acquired through illegal means is not known.
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The first paragraph completely discounts public domain books and books offered for free. In the second paragraph, they admit they don't actually know what percentage is acquired by illegal means, while the first paragraph makes an explicit - and probably false - claim that over 90% of the books on Dutch e-readers are pirated. Certainly some percentage of those books are legal free books.
Simply dividing the number of downloads by the number of e-readers can lead to skewed data. A few people my be downloading thousands of books, which can skew the numbers. |
Language is important. The books that you buy from retailers are downloaded as well.