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Originally Posted by sirbruce
You seem to have an idea that an ebook is some sort of 'lesser creature' to a physical book. That authors only have rights to sell physical things, but not digital things.
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Yes I do. For me, libraries, borrowing from friends and filesharing all give you a chance to read the book without owning it. And that's it. For me -who still buys books- this amounts more or less to the same thing. Kind of like sampling authors.
Making hard copies and selling them is definitely wrong. As I believe that selling the chance to read a book as much as the actual book is also wrong.
Also, one last point.
I think that if an author knew that, for different reasons, there was no chance that I would buy the book, I think he/she would choose that I read it for free than never getting acquainted with the work.