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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
I don't think the prices justify piracy.
The appropriate response is to not buy the book, and write the publishers saying why you're not purchasing their product.
Something being priced to high doesn't justify stealing a copy. You wouldn't do it with a physical copy would you? Walk into borders and shoplift a book you want to read but feel it's too high? So why is it ok to steal the digital copy because the e-book is priced to high?
I'm always amazed how the move to digital content, and the ease of illegal obtaining digital content vs. physical products, seems to shift peoples moral judgments on right and wrong.
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fortunately you are not the Jiminy Crickett of the interwebbs. as I said, I justified my reader with the knowledge of a price cap. and I had looked at some of the older books on Amazon that I new I would be interested in, and they were all well under the 9.99.
then we have the false delays in e-publishing which is a bunch of horseshit. I both bought and pirated Under The Dome because I refused to wait, and I am about to start on book 12 of The Wheel of Time as I'll be damned if I am going to wait for them to epublish a book a month of that series especially as I owned MANY copies of those books, wanted to read them again before reading #12, and now that I have an ereader I don't see the need to deal with a bulky book or be bonked in the head with it when I fall asleep.
it's time for the publishers to smell the new reality