Comments on: Kindle and Digital Piracy

By: Bob Bonnette

Bob Bonnette — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:28:53 +0000

First…unless you’re in a coffee shop or other outlet that offers free Inteernet access, the Internet is not free and if you want high speed (not dial-up or DSL) access like cable or FIOS it costs a pretty penny.

Secondly…the Internet is not what is killing the news industry; they are doing that to themselves by delivering filtered, biased garbage to the masses. The fourth column no longer exists. If it did, they wouldn’t be carrying water for Obama…they’d be reporting his and his corrupt administartions crimes instead of covering them up or excusing them.

By: Axel

Axel — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:53:36 +0000

Quite true, but most people that work (and by so have the money to buy books) don’t have the time to read several thousand books in a reasonable time.
And secondly, weird restrictions on formats, maximum times being able to download a book you’ve bought (I don’t say own, because amazon can decide to remove books from your device if something happens), able to restrict TTS are things that make ppl do pirace.
I personally have bought books only to find out about for example the TTS restriction which prevents me from listening to the book at work, and so has forced me to actually try and find the ‘pirated’ version of something I’ve just bought, solely for the reason of being able to use/read it as I wanted to.

There seems also to be no set policy nor rules posted where you can read what amazon can and can’t do, which in turn makes ppl actually chose pirace because it’s overall more stable, even if you might not be able to access your ‘bought’ book everywhere in the world, you have enough control over it that it won’t suddenly disappear and suddenly become unavailable for download, or unavailable to add to your future e-book reader (which might not necessary be another kindle)

By: John Smith

John Smith — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:43:24 +0000

The steps for ebook piracy do make it sound slightly more difficult, but most of them are things you only have to do once and then you get hundreds or thousands of books in a single torrent file. For piracy of a single book, your best bet is to just do a google search for “book name pdf” and you are usually all set. Also, don’t use a kindle, use a nook instead.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:58:28 +0000

“Too much trouble”? I really don’t think that the price is driving the piracy issue. Maybe it is with an older generation, who feels that the piracy of licensed materials has some sort of steep learning curve, but not with anyone born in the last 35-40 years. The computer-savvy crowd congratulates itself on its cleverness, and knows that if the materials aren’t readily available to them, they are only a couple of clicks away from finding out how to get them.

It’s dangerous to assume that piracy of digital books isn’t going to bring down the business of literature. Look at what a free Internet is doing to the news industry.

By: st

st — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:52:36 +0000

The price issue may not be as simple as it seems at first glance. I’ve already paid for physical books in the past that I wish I could now have in Kindle versions instead. What seems at first like a $9.99 barrier might actually be double or triple that amount, psychologically, because of what I’ve already paid in the past for the same content.

By: switch11

switch11 — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:24:34 +0000

good catch.

By: Adam S

Adam S — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:53:06 +0000

You missed the biggest reason, lack of availability. If you can’t get it any other way than piracy you don’t have a legal means of obtaining it. (Harry Potter, etc)