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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
What can I say? Most people I know have kindles? And sideloading? Yes, they're able to do it. And Kobo, the "preferred" purchase for pirates? Ja, in Spain, at least. Kobo is a minor trademark, with a lot of brands not known out of this country, but the main seller: Amazon and its Kindle. No sd-card, no epub format (what's the necesity), a nice "Send to kindle" offered by amazon...
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What really would interest me, but I simply don't know enough pirates and the ones I know are tiny fish:
Are pirates active readers? Do they buy their reader and at some stage start to add pirated stuff to their legally bought one?
In my small test group (but like I said before: Only a handful of countries, no professionals amongst them and only about 10 people) it was exactly the other way around:
Not caring about the reader or UI. A bit about the OS, maybe Linux or something like that might make things easier and offer more options. But solely about the file format. Most of them are Europeans (Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Italy - probably forgot some) and most of them focus on English content. So their drive towards ePUBS might be a regional thing. And then, after the file format, they discovered the SD card and liked that for capacity and interchangeability. And only then they bought their readers and at that time already had tens of thousands of books - downloaded in an hour. And it only took an hour because of the search and filter, not because of the file sizes.
I'm always fascinated by grey (or deeply dark) areas.
Those 10 don't make any money out of it and don't move real quantities, so it's a rather limited picture.
Still it's interesting enough, how simple and risk-free they describe it all.
I'm not tempted myself. Not for ethical reasons or anything like that. I'd probably use arguments myself such as "it can't be bought here anyway. If it can't be bought, I can't harm any sales". But I simply wouldn't want to load my readers with tons of stuff of unknown quality. Bad enough, when I discover errors, typos and the likes in my bought stuff. But I'd hope for an, on average, higher quality standard for purchased stuff than for pirated one.