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Originally Posted by AMacD
I don't think there is any justification for piracy, but I also don't think it is morally right to require a student to buy an overpriced text book just to boost the income of the teacher.
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Really? So, in your opinion, it is perfectly justifiable for a retailer/publisher to insist that potential customers ONLY buy ebook versions in a format that can be read solely upon one device family? (I'm thinking Amazon Kindle here.)
There are plenty of ebooks I can only 'get' in Kindle format. I don't OWN a Kindle (I'm quite happy with my Dell Axim x51v and Bookeen Cybook Gen3, thank you.), nor do I want to shell out big bucks for one. I'd gladly, GLADLY, buy the ebooks in Mobipocket format, or even eReader, but of course, Amazon doesn't *want* my business enough to sell these titles in non-Kindle format.
So why, given that I've purchased copies of all these works in dead-tree format, should I pay for a format I cannot read when I can just scan in from my dead-tree books or download the titles from pirate sites. The author's got royalties from my D-T purchases and the publisher suffers by refusing to support a more open format.
Derek