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NatCh,
I definitely share the view that authors must be compensated in some way - otherwise, why would they write (actually, many would probably keep writing anyway, but that's another story).
Nevertheless, paying the same price (or more) for an ebook as I'd pay for a pbook, even though printing and distribution costs are near zero, just doesn't make sense. Extra-legal activity is what forced the music industry to cave in and allow Apple to start selling individual songs for logical sums. I expect it would be needed if we are to force a similar result in the book publishing business.
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