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Originally Posted by pwalker8
My personal take on pirate sites, ignoring the ethical questions, is why would you give your financial information to someone you know is a thief? Is saving a couple of bucks really worth the risk?
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You confuse pirate sites for scam sites. Internet piracy is overwhelmingly zero cost as it circumvents all licensing. Ironically, amazon is the largest scam site in this regard - as it is a host to thousands of "authors" selling either public domain works, or straight plagiarized copyrighted work under different name.
As for "good reasons" to pirate - being a cheapskate aside, it often is just geographical (or publishing - no legit ebook available) stupidity.
As for pricing policy, the dazzling thing is that eBooks often cost *more* than paperback, and publisher gets significantly larger cut for an ebook as their distribution cost is nil in there. This difference is most marked when you compare Big5 cartel ($10-$20 per ebook) vs non-cartel (small houses, self-published on amazon etc) pricing (about $1-$5 per ebook). Paperback usually costs $10-$20 range for both.