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Originally Posted by Yapyap
I think a lot of us here are so used to circumventing georestrictions daily with ebooks, jumping through hoops - and violating all sorts of rules and agreements and potentially risking our accounts and entire ebook libraries - just to give money to the creators (who aren't necessarily keen on selling to us) that lack of availability has become less of an issue than it used to be.
One cannot really expect potential customers / interested people everywhere to do that, though, especially as it's even less convenient than piracy.
I really do hope that this won't be as big a problem in another five or ten years, though.
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How true. Sometimes it's more work to legally acquire a book than to just type "Book Title EPUB download Torrent" into Google and hit the first link.
That's just sad.
Fortunately, I believe in paying for stuff that I want, and weird enough, I even feel a bit guilty if I *do* pirate the occasional book, just because there's no way to otherwise get it.
While replacing the last of my paper books with ebooks, I was looking for an ebook I *knew* that existed because I had seen it at Kobo a year ago (*), but was unable to find it anywhere... until I found it through a file sharing forum.
An ebook that's taken out of "print", while the paper version was still readily available. Can you believe that?
(* It had a ridiculous price; something like €20 for a 200 page book, while the paper version I already owned cost around €6.95, so I passed it up back then.)