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I love my kindle, but I've been reluctant to buy books for it. I don't want to support a medium that causes the average reads per copy to tend to be 1. After reading this I'm conflicted: will buying more DRM books cause paper publishers to see the light sooner?


Does that mean you're pirating books for it rather than buying them?

I buy lots of books on the kindle. However, I wanted to read "Atlas Shrugged" and there was no kindle book for sale so I found it online.

I take the customer is always right approach. I am the customer. I consume content in the way I find most convenient. If you make it difficult for me to pay you to do what's most convenient for me, I don't.


No, just good old-fashioned hardcopies. From amazon, secondhand stores, libraries. Wherever they begin, they end up back at the library. But I can't do that with ebooks.




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