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Originally Posted by eschwartz
...My point is you are acting as though the only alternative to purchasing books is to pirate them, and your target group of people-who-don't-purchase-books is artificially restricted to pirates-only. Thus saying if you check the box for sideloading from "other places", you believe that must mean the person is a pirate, which does wonders for your analysis of your target group.
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I never said/wrote that.
It's my poll. It doesn't have to cover the aspects interesting for you. It was supposed to cover the sole topic interesting for me in this moment: Sideloading purchased books vs. sideloading illegal obtained ones.
Yes, on a per-book-basis there will be exceptions. User A buys his book in Amazon. Pirate X illegally obtains it from the darknet. But User B, as opposed to User A, get's the very same book for free from Kobo in a promo.
But I never spoke on a "per-book-basis". I guess it's safe to assume, most people have more than a single book. So if you have 100 sideloaded to your reader: Where are they coming from? If you can't tick a box for 30 of those 100, because they have been freebies and don't fit into the choices: Where's the problem to leave them out? The remaining 70 will fit in either or both of the other categories. There's no box about "number of books". So it doesn't matter, whether it would be 90:10 or 60:10, for example.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
...but then again, the purchases aren't being pirated either (insomuch as they are, indeed, purchases), so perhaps we shouldn't count those either. And then your target group will be pirates-only... and shockingly, all of them pirate...
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They have been purchased at some point. But either the pirate didn't buy it to begin with, or he illegally distributes it later on.
And the question wasn't "do you pirate" but "do you sideload pirated stuff".