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Saturday Book Discussion: Arrr, ebook pirates!

Jan 14, 2012 18:32

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twasadark January 14 2012, 23:46:20 UTC

Another well-thought out and interesting post. Thank you!

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marlowe1 January 24 2012, 04:58:00 UTC

Well you aren't the artist, so you aren't losing money from these illegal downloads.

lady_leia_solo January 15 2012, 00:17:12 UTC

Personally I could go either way. I do buy a lot of books in general. Usually if the printed book can be obtained for the exact same price, I'll buy the printed form because I like looking at them on my shelves. But if the ebook is cheaper, I'll buy it. Ultimately I'm a cheap person.

If I do acquire a copy illegally, I use it for preview purposes. If I like the book, I'll mostly likely buy it.

xpaperplanex January 15 2012, 01:34:36 UTC

Hmm, interesting post. I both buy and pirate ebooks, depending on a variety of factors. The main one is usually, can I even buy it legitimately? When I first got my kindle, it caused me no end of frustration to look for a book and get a "This book is not available in Canada" message. Writing to Amazon and the publishers to say that I would really like to purchase this book if you will allow me, please work out your copyright issues, got very tedious, very quickly. I still do it because I think it's important to let the publishers know that there's a market out there, but sometimes I wonder if it's worth it ( ... )

darkmanifest January 15 2012, 05:06:11 UTC

Something I think would be really nice, would be if physical books came with a code for a free, or discounted copy of the ebook.

I would love this.

inverarity January 15 2012, 05:32:23 UTC

Several publishers are doing this already, and I think it will become standard within a few years.

xpaperplanex January 15 2012, 05:33:44 UTC

Really!? That's awesome!

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anonymous January 15 2012, 02:05:01 UTC

What are you supposed to do if the publisher just doesn't want your money?

I have all Harry Potter books, in hard-cover and legally bought, at home. Taking seven hard-cover books on vacation isn't very airline luggage friendly, so I wanted to get them as eBooks for my Sony reader. But guess what, it wasn't (and still isn't) possible to legally buy Harry Potter eBooks. And I would have paid for them, even though I already own the paper version. But the publisher didn't want my money, so I went and downloaded some nice, free exemplars. Their loss.