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To address another aspect of this thread, if I had a reason to not buy ebooks at all, I'd have little problem going completely free (and DRM-free) by any legal standard. It helps that my favorite fiction genre is a combined SF&F and I've downloaded the Baen CDs, but I have read and enjoyed many other contemporary ebooks that can be downloaded with either no registration or something minimal like an email address.
I recognize that my particular tastes help in that regard. In addition to SF, I also enjoy reading old books (both fiction and nonfiction) simply because they're old. I've read hundreds of Google Books scans and downloaded thousands (I'm nothing if not optimistic). I imagine that staying off the ebook grid would be harder if I enjoyed contemporary romance, for example, but I'm also guessing that there's a decent cross section of readers that would be able to otherwise stay satisfied if there were some reason to avoid even free books that require account registration.
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