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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Frankly, nothing.
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The folks who grab the illegal copies aren't likely to have paid for them in the first place, so it's not like you're losing revenue you might otherwise have had. And while illegal copies are available, how much of the market knows where to get them? And will the format be one they can use? I see lots of books scanned, OCRed, and posted to various newsgroups. As plain text. The effort to get it into a format I would want to read on my PDA is far more trouble than I care to go through, and I'm someone with sufficient technical knowledge that I could do it.
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I'm not sure about that. Certainly there are those out for a free lunch, but I've also seen opinions such as, "I'm grabbing the books that I can't seem to purchase from an eBook retailer." And also, "I only take the books that I already have paper copies of."
The question is how much of each are out there.
And it would be nice if there was some route to legally pay for the rights to such books - the amount that the publisher would profit plus pay the author for the copy.