I am curious how buying books in thrift shops, salvation army etc, and at library sales, for almost nothing, relates to piracy. There are numerous ways to get ebooks for free, scan your own, P2P, Websites, Irc. It is also, in the US, very easy to get real book for free or almost free. Thrift shops and book sales for as cheap as 25 cents. Either way the author gets nothing except for the first sell. How are scanned copies of books for free different from getting real books for free or almost free? I am thinking it is only illegal in the US to buy or sell books with the covers off of them, because they have already been turned in as unsold for credit.
