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Originally Posted by Tim32127
Hello brecklundin,
I don't think a few emails will change anyones mind, but I do know there are more than a few people frustrated with the way this market is being dealt with.
I don't know how many emails it'll take but I have to at least make the effort.
The ebooks are out there the only people they are hurting are the people who want to support them. Thats what makes it so stupid to me.
Tim..
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Get used to that sense of frustration. Many of us here have been reading ebooks for a loooong time, well before the idea of Eink brand panels was in it's larval stage. We know all too well the motivations of the publishers and they sense any ebooks amount to stealing profits from them, even if over the next 40yrs they will earn income from a book that before ebooks they might have seen sales for a decade or less and in rare cases a couple decades.
One way people can address this is to simply email constantly whenever you scan a copy so you can have an ebook version or even if you visit darknet because you had no other choice. Also email those in control of the copyright laws in your country. In my opinion I feel if there is this pretty much 125 to 150 yr copyrights in the US (write a book at 25, live to 75, add 78ys after death [I think] = 122ish years of control over a single work) then publishers should be required to provide ebook versions. I don't feel that is unreasonable in exchange for the fact there will never again be public domain versions of works created in our lifetimes...think a bout that idea and the irony of the fact today's AmeriCorps all live by the quarterly report only...anything beyond that is meaningless to them. So it is all about today's profits not tomorrow's. Yet they wet themselves over the idea of these new century+ copyrights and owning the rights to the work.