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by uyzstvqs 26 days ago
Once more: Piracy is almost always a service problem, not a pricing problem.

If there was an online e-book store where you could buy most books as DRM-free epub files, and you could read the first X pages for free, I guarantee you that nobody here would care about the OP article. It would have maybe 4 or 5 upvotes.

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This is a bit of a fairytale. Probably true for a certain subset of high earning westerners. Not true in general.
Amazon?