Welcome to MobileRead, BruceW!
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Originally Posted by BruceW
No $$ paid for new current content = no market for new readers.
I am a new Ebook user, has not actual arrived yet, and I am disappointed in the number of people in this forum who are looking only for free content.
Just the new bees thoughts on the subject.
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And it's an
excellent thought. I think most of us are, indeed willing to pay for content, I personally love Baen's Webscriptions service, and patronize it as much as I can, as do a number of others that I'm aware of.
However, if there are books in the Public Domain that are available for free, then I'm certainly not morally opposed to free. At the same time, I think that donations to the efforts that produce and distribute them are are the responsible thing to do.
There is, of course, a segment of society that will never pay for anything if they can get it for free, however dubious the getting might be, but I don't think they're the majority here at MR. Frankly, there are a number of us that patronize Sony's Connect Store, even though we'd really rather not have the DRM that comes with it, specifically to encourage Sony's efforts ... and in hopes that the book DRM will continue on the path that music DRM seems to be taking, and render the whole point moot.
