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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I can only speak for myself. My rationale for something like that is:
The books I'm talking are long out of print books that can be found at used bookstores for a quarter. The e-books only exist because my friend likes to create them as a hobby. It is so penny-ante, I just don't see the harm.
Really, is anyone likely to take the time/effort to license an e-version of Alan Dean Foster's novelization of Pale Rider? And does anyone out there particularly care about a bootleg scan of the Dressed to Kill novelization?
I suppose in the end, whatever airy words I use, the honest truth is "I wanna read it" and I know that the rights-holders are unlikely to ever bother bringing the book back.
There's also the fun of seeing how good a job my friend does on a fan made scan of a book. I have sent him several of my old novelizations. It's neat to see such a nicely made e-book come back (nicer in many cases than e-books I've paid for).
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I found Dan Brown's Inferno in hardback for 49 cents 2 weeks after it came out at a used store. Last I looked it would have still been in print so your point was??