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Originally Posted by darryl
@Harry. I haven't seen anything in this thread that suggests that anyone has a right to buy any book for "unreasonably low prices" or "peanuts". The present issue under discussion is the wisdom of not making an ebook available in a particular region given the nature of the market including particularly the ready availability of pirated ebooks and the relative ease of avoiding geo-blocking. The market will of course be the ultimate arbiter, though I'm not sure we will ever know the result on this particular issue. On the issue of pricing I think we are seeing the results already. It must be a great comfort to the Big 5 and their authors that rather than resorting to piracy many are apparently turning to Amazon, Indies and smaller innovative publishers.
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I don't think he was referring specifically to this thread. There have been many other threads where people have expressed the that view.
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