"Rick [Kitty5]" <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote :
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> Real books don't get downloaded once and then distributed illegally.

    Of course they do. Well... the "distributed illegally" part at least. A
week after a book is released in hardback it's been scanned, OCRed and
posted. There is no way to avoid that sort of thing other than making it
generally available and depending upon the money made from those who -do-
pay for what they want.

    Illegal distribution is not likely to cause any diminution in the actual
sales of a book. In fact, there is a good chance that it increases the sales
by allowing people to peruse the book in the same way they might in a book
store. Yes, it's wrong, no, it's not detrimental.

    The problem comes when people try to re-publish the book and sell it.
That's piracy and is both wrong and harmful. It is also just as unavoidable,
in that publishing a e-book does not change the chance of it happening.

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