Thread: interesting NYT article on "copyright morality"
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Old 12-27-2007, 08:21 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I really do have to take issue with both those statements, Derek.

1. There are numerous eBooks available for around the US$5 price point, which I believe would be a fair price from virtually anyone's viewpoint (Lauzon excluded, of course). Baen charge US$5 for their individual books, and Fictionwise charge around that for many of their "Multiformat" books.

Does that stop these books being reposted on the Usenet eBook groups and BitTorrent sites? No, it doesn't. Some people are just thieves, full stop.
You should not make blanket legal statements (calling people thieves).

The interesting fact here is not how much books are distributed but how much less books are bought. People request books at secondhand bookshops and they get the books there without the publishes getting any money but I do not see any complaints about that.
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