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Originally Posted by Jack Tingle
...but the publishing industry doesn't appear to have any rational brain cells...
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Let's see, if the industry does have rational brain cells, they would make it easy for me to buy and read the first book of a series, so that if I liked it I could buy the remaining titles...
I want to buy Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell in eformat:
Is it available in the UK? - no, not at the moment
Can I buy it from the US? - no, regionally restricted
Are there illegal copies available? - you betcha
So if I follow this through to the logical but illegal conclusion, I could download a pirate copy for free, or could even download Cornwell's entire œuvre for free, but I cannot legally **BUY** a copy and put money in the publisher's and author's hands.
Rational brain cell count = zero