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Originally Posted by Moejoe
What if he can't afford the books, or lives in a country where those books are 'geographically restricted'?
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I was responding to the poster who said "I don't buy eBooks because the quality is not good enough".
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What if he downloads, reads, and then deletes the copies, is he doing anything less or more than if he were loaning from a library?
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Libraries in the UK pay the author about 6p each time a book is borrowed - and, of course, they buy the book that they are lending you. How does that payment reach the author for a pirated download?