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Originally Posted by bhartman36
If you know people can get something for free, you have a hard time justifying starting a venture to sell it to them. The venture itself costs money, after all.
I think this is a bad day for the Pirate Bay guys, but it might just be a good day for ebooks...
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I think there are still many reasons why being able to buy ebooks from a reputable ebook seller far outweighs "free"
If the ebook seller can sell well formatted copies for a reasonable amount it's well worth the effort of spending a few bucks to save time going to the free places and wading through multiple copies of not so well formatted ebooks.
There is a market as Baen has proven for ebooks.
The big companies are just greedy bastards who charge 29 dollars for an ebook when the paper copy at amazon is only 16 dollars!
Until that issue can be resolved I don't see the sites like the Pirate Bay going away anytime soon. At 29 dollars it's well worth my time and effort to hit the "free" sites to find what I'm looking for.
Sadly, Baen is the only publisher that seems to have a clue as to what their customers want. So I do buy ebooks from them because they provide value at a low cost. And what they offer is worth more than "free."