People don't believe in paying unreasonable amounts of money for something that costs the publisher virtually nothing to produce.
So yell about the publishers greed if your going to complain about pirates.
Because they caused it in the first place.
Also for many of us books are not a "luxury" it is a necessity that keeps us sane, and able to deal with those around us.
If people could find what they wanted at a reasonable price, they wouldn't pirate it. As for sales, you can't lose something you never had. They never had those sales. They had "expectation's" and hopes of sales. Whats worse, the people who pirate because they can't afford to shell out 15$ for an ebook. Or the Publisher who will break any law he can get away with, inflate prices on books that cost him almost nothing to produce. While wasting loads of money and paper books because he refuses to find a better model for selling paper books.
Who's the real criminal here? And why do guys like you always stand up for greedy corporations?
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Originally Posted by garbanzo
sorry, but this is utter crap. nobody is forcing anyone to do anything. the fact that you can't buy a particular luxury item that your heart desires does not justify going out and stealing it. it's like saying it's OK to buy drugs off the street because the government does not allow them to be sold commercially.
people pirate ebooks and everything else because they don't see any sense in paying pay for something when it can be acquired discretely and instantly from the comfort of their own home.
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