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Originally Posted by Jane A
I'm far from having wings  but even though I voted for option 3 I wouldn't buy a pirated ebook. But I don't buy dead tree copies, either. ... |
You mean, if you were looking to buy Harry Potter as an ebook on the web, but then discovered, that it is simply not available for sale, you wouldn't be tempted to take a peek at one of the myriad "unofficial" copies, which pop up during the search...
? If so, for real, then
But IMO, the only reason we have DRM-free music sales, at reasonable prices per song (instead of the $2.20+ the music industry was pushing on Apple,) is because of the threat of piracy.
Current literature is not an open, free market. It is a monopoly, applied to certain forms of each title.
Publishers have a working model in place, and naturally will attempt to kill anything they see as a threat. Ebooks are a threat to the current model, thus the publishers insist on prices often higher than paper editions, with the hope of keeping potential purchasers from straying from the current model.
In reality, the threat of "piracy" is a much bigger stick for change, than the "predatory pricing" of Amazon.