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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
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It looks to me that the majority support the idea that once you have paid for a work, it's reasonable not to be expected to (have to) pay again for a different format. As someone said earlier in the thread, if it's cheap enough, people will pay anyway to avoid the hassle of format shifting, but we're not there with ebook pricing today.
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Yep. We're not there yet on ebook pricing. But we will be.
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I was surprised at the level of support for the income of dead people. Two thirds didn't check this as a fair reason to take a copy. Perhaps we should make up some bumper stickers that say "Illegal copying of dead authors' works is a grave crime".
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O! M! G! I have *GOT* to go to CafePress and make me one of them.
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I was pleasantly surprised that so few people rose to the bait of not paying rich people or big publishers. There seems to be a clear majority that think that if a book is made available, and you don't already own it, you should pay for it.
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You bet. Now I have a problem with price-gouging as MacM wants to do, but yes, I'd rather pay for a commercially available ebook than dark-net it.
Derek