11-30-2017, 11:57 PM | #16 |
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Before ebooks, we bought hard copy. If we could not afford new copies, we went to second hand bookstores. Thats not an option with ebooks so now, we just have to exercise a bit of patience and *wait*. Or go to the second hand bookstores and get hard copy.
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12-01-2017, 12:09 AM | #17 | |
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Another difference is that we were all reading physical books when I was in school. The important ones got passed around so that they could be discussed and enjoyment shared. If you wanted your own copy, you could find it in a used bookstore for cheap. If we all had to buy new copies ourselves to read like you do with ebooks, there would have been a lot less shared culture. |
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12-01-2017, 04:36 AM | #18 | |
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One has to wonder where those college textbooks came from and how they were acquired. Maybe, maybe not. |
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12-01-2017, 06:12 AM | #19 |
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Killing the habit of honestly acquiring one's entertainment sounds like a worse disaster to me.
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12-01-2017, 06:26 AM | #20 | |
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If you think that's ludicrous, then you should look more into the example you brought up. Some courses force you to buy a textbook, whether you want it or not. It is changed every year to ensure that everyone must buy a new one, even if it is no better than the previous one. And of course, the prices are ridiculously high for the captured market. Even worse, they are coming up with business models that take the book away from you when the course is over. For the textbook industry, the paragraph above is gospel. It's what happens when one side gets to make all of the rules. I believe that books are important for far more than just making money for authors and publishers, and that putting books behind paywalls is bad for everyone. I believe that you should pay for a book if you can, but if you can't or won't pay, then we're still better off if you get to read the book anyway. |
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12-01-2017, 06:30 AM | #21 | |
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12-01-2017, 06:36 AM | #22 |
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Young people with little money have been taping, dubbing, ripping and now downloading music for many decades, yet somehow they turn into adults that pay for music. I don't think that piracy is as habit-forming as you think.
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12-01-2017, 10:37 AM | #23 | |
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As to your greater argument, that downloading and trading copies of music have been around for a long time and are technically piracy, you are right. I'm one of those guys who likes to own his digital content (music, movies and books), so I buy and always have. Some people grow out of pirating, some never do. For that matter, I know a few professional musicians who are pretty loose in that regard. I think that a bigger point to be made is that piracy tends to be a mind set thing. I buy because I'm greedy. I want more and more. But I'm not going to get more unless authors continue to write and musicians continue to perform. The only way they can do that is by making enough money to make a living. As long as we keep reminding people of the ramifications of piracy, then we combat that mindset. |
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12-01-2017, 08:22 PM | #24 | |
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12-02-2017, 08:28 AM | #25 | |
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