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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
That's my thought as well. Piracy has started me on the road to ebooks, and I've bought more ebooks these last years than I have have bought in paper.
But those stupid restrictions are chasing me away from the official stores again, because I simply can't find the books I want (anymore). Either they're just not available, or they're not available to me. The net result is the same: I will go look somewhere else.
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You and others who have mentioned similar reasons for 'searching elsewhere' for ebooks are exactly the people I was describing as "Honest Pirates". Had an ebook been for sale in a reasonable easy manner without requiring change of country and jumping through hoops etc, you would have gladly paid and bought all your ebooks, instead (due to primarily the publisher) are forced to go elsewhere.
If any publishers are reading this PLEASE understand, people are not pirating ebooks because they want to, they are doing it because they are forced to.