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Originally Posted by issybird
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Jeebus, you love to theorize out of your fundament. You know nothing at all about my reading habits and yet you feel confident characterizing them. In fact, just so you know, I read roughly half fiction and half nonfiction, history of the serious or academic variety.
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Ok, sorry, I just saw your book club and surmised from that tenuously that you read fiction mostly.
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Originally Posted by issybird
Briefly, price of ebooks has nothing at all to do with either the legality or morality of piracy. Which isn't either legal or moral, since it seems necessary to spell it out for you. As with any other good, if an ebook is too pricey for you, don't buy it. It's very easy. Moreover, and this bit I'm saying as a mod, advocacy of piracy is not condoned at MR, so don't.
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Look, lady, no offense but I have been a techie hacker (not in the mass media's false idea of terrorist hacker that would be a cracker instead) since 1997. I think I have a better grip, probably, on internet culture and the future of the internet on the whole.
I am not advocating piracy I am just saying it is inevitable. Like I said there is a book called "The Inevitable: 12 Technological Forces that Will Change the Future" by Kevin Kelly a famous wired magazine editor and computer science expert that has a chapter 6 called 'sharing'. Basically, hackers have always fought to have all information free. See people like Julian Assange. Basically, it is baked into the culture of the internet from ancient hacker ethos and is going forward into the future so since it is inevitable book publishers need to be innovative on how to make money on it at another angle.
I have my pulse on the internet culture as a hacker which you might not have (there is also a 150 question quiz I took that shows I am a general computer expert but my photobucket account is down right now) :
Saying it is inevitable and promoting piracy are two different things.
Now, I have already bought the book in the past so it is not too pricey for me it is just illogical. For instance, if a paperback is only $15 dollars then it makes sense to sell the ebook for only $3 dollars at $13 but as books go up in price from $25 to $50 etc... the percentage knockoff should scale accordingly and that is just thinking perfectly logically in a mathematical way but most people are not perfectly logical.
