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Originally Posted by Sparrow
That's a very good point.
It's a shame prices for ebooks don't reflect the cost to people of purchasing them - so those in poor countries are continually disadvantaged.
How about a model where I buy a book at European prices, and part of that money goes into a pot to subsidise the purchases of customers in developing countries?
I'd get a buzz out of knowing some of my money was helping someone out, promoting ebooks globally, and making the system fairer.
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That's where Creative Commons becomes such a good idea. License your work under CC and anybody can download freely. It kills the ridiculous notion of geographical and economic limitation. Wouldn't it be wonderful, as a writer, to know that from Texas to Timbuktu anybody could read your work (language permitting)? Potentially your words can now reach an audience unimaginable to writers in the past.