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Originally Posted by eschwartz
...And I am not and never have been talking about those... I have been talking about PG and the Patricia Clark Memorial Library and other such sources.
Are those being paid for? How?
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Content one gets there, most likely isn't exclusive, but can be obtained from numerous sources.
Especially out of copyright titles should be wildly spread.
And usually some of those sources will sell the titles.
You can't buy book X from the Patricia Clark Memorial Library.
But the very same title, albeit probably prepared and processed differently, can be purchased elsewhere.
For example, I could download the aforementioned Alexandre Dumas classics from here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54372
Prepared even by, it appears, HarryT.
Even though, personally I wouldn't look for a free copy. If I want it, I buy it from my usual source. If that's, for example, Amazon at the moment, I wouldn't even compare prices with Kobo or B&N.
Yes, I shouldn't project my own purchasing behavior onto others.
But again: I was interested in the results of the poll in one specific area.
This doesn't concern free stuff. You still could pirate stuff that costs in one source, although it's for free in another source. But that's kind of a construed scenario.
My main interest was the correlation between pirated stuff (not paying for them) and sideloading. This comparison for free stuff is way less interesting, since it kills one of the motivations of pirates (either saving money themselves or even generating a profit by selling pirated stuff)...