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Originally Posted by darryl
However, it seems that most people choose to pay for their books. At least enough of them to sustain a thriving market.
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Long may it be so!!!!
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Originally Posted by darryl
There would still be books even if everyone pirated them, but the standard would very likely be much lower and the choice much more restricted. Morality apart, it makes sense to pay for your ebooks, or at least most of them.
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I won't touch the morality question but I'm not so sure the standard would be lower. Ebooks existed long before e-readers were a thing and before there was a market.
As for choice, perhaps but again, I'm not so sure.
There was a cracker, in the original sense, called ORC+ and he wrote a bunch of assembly tutorials in the early 90s and one of the things he wrote that always stuck with me was:
Those who do a work out of love will always exceed those who do a work for money.
Anyway, I just wanted to provide an alternative view. I'm very glad the ebook market is alive and well.