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Originally Posted by stumped
partly because the quality of pirate book scans is generally dire, whereas the quality of pirated movies and TV shows is often very good?
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I think you have that backwards. Pirated ebooks tend to be the same as retail, stripped of DRM and uploaded.
There are fan scans of older books that haven't gotten an ebook release as yet.
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also, i could be wrong, but I don't think best selling book releases suffer from the geo stupidity of " you can't get it legally in your country for another 6 months"
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e-books suffer from the 'geo stupidity' of "you can't get it legally in your country, period." Try searching Amazon US for Kindle versions of Michael Moorcock's Elric books for instance. They are available at Amazon UK.
A literary horror novel I want to read, The Town That Forgot How to Breathe is available cheaply in the UK, but not available at all in the USA or Canada (and the author is Canadian).