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Originally Posted by leebase
What we don’t have is Napster for ebooks. A widely known, easy available source of pirated ebooks with easy software for locating and downloading the material. I know....there are sites...but they are constantly shifting, bing shut down, coming back up. Finding what you want is not Napster friendly.
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Sure it is. There are sites that have been up for years and years. I'd prove it by giving examples, but that would break site rules.
At any rate, your argument seems to be drifting from 'piracy is a problem for books, or will become one when ebooks are the primary format' to 'piracy isn't a problem because it isn't as easy as Napster.'
I don't think piracy simply free advertising. It isn't a good thing. It's just not the industry destroyer you think it is.
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You’ll notice that Gaimon hasn’t followed up and made all of his books available for free
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Don't be disingenuous. Making American Gods a freebie wasn't some sort of mission statement. He wasn't saying all ebooks should be available free all the time. It was an experiment and he clearly said so.