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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Of course, this says nothing about how 'piracy' affects sales of ebooks. But I think, as with music, if ebooks are available at an easily searched store for reasonable prices (yours certainly are ), then people are much more likely to buy than to try to find and download a 'darknet' copy.
My time is certainly worth more than a few dollars per hour. And finding, downloading, possibly converting darknet copies is way too much hassle.
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Hear hear! I have a stash of ebooks that I downloaded 10 years or so ago when I was broke. I only ever read a handful of them (mostly due to getting tired of reading on a Palm IIIe or a laptop). When I got my Sony Reader, I pulled that stash out and started digging through it. After remembering how horrible the formatting/proofing was on most of those books (many that had been "proofed" and versioned 4 or 5 times previously), I quickly turned around and bought legitimate epubs and LRFs. Sure I can easily get darknet copies of many books, but I know what the quality is like on most of those (hell, many completely eliminate
any and all uses of italics!), so I instead buy copies when I can.