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Originally Posted by Harmon
I recently interested in reading a Book that was written in the 1980s. I wanted to browse it before I bought, but I could not find a copy in my local Borders. I checked, and could not find anyone selling the Book in any ebook format, much less one that my edevice could read. So I was forced into a position where I would have had to buy it from Amazon & hope I liked it.
As it happened, I found a used copy, which I bought, and found that I liked. But it is FAT. So I checked the darknet, & found a copy, which I am now reading on my Sony.
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And once you had purchased the used p-book and found you liked it the reason that you searched the darknet to find a e-book copy instead of purchasing it from Amazon was …? You felt that you had already compensated the author, even by purchasing a used paper copy? If you had found the book on the darknet before buying the paper version?
Regarding the rest of the post you do raise a lot of interesting ideas. Sticking with the subject of books – as Kennyc mentions in his intervening post most of the problems newspapers are in have to do with loss of traditional advertising revenue, not piracy. Though news aggregation sites like HuffingtonPost can't help – it is still not clear to me in your model how authors who produce the original content will be fairly compensated for their creativity and time spent in producing the work. All the talk of book clubs and such just sounds to me like additional overhead that will not be provided by the author at all, but by some third party.