Yes, maybe a lot of em aren’t make “big” money, but that’s just too bad. Everyone in every market or industry is in one way or another being screwed by someone else. Save your hard earned money, and if they have an issue with it, they can do the same to someone else. Sounds like a really really horrible way to look at things, i know, but thats the system we live in. Until the entire social system stops breeding competition and corruption, go for it.

i believe the real lesson is that while most pirates bought ipods for mobility, fewer will buy this very expensive mobile e-book for a while, thus writers are still probably safe (and isn’t it the bit torrent that’s the piracy? who cares if they can kindle it when they’re already pc’ing it)

The Greek playwright Horace talked about the degenerate descendants. He must have prognosticated Gen Y’s. I really pity all of you. One day, everything you have been given will be taken from you because of the lack of tenacity to make it yourself. I might say this would be tragic. However, it would be doing humanity a favor.

I’m so sick of listening to those that only care about themselves. Society is social. This means more than one. If you can’t hack it in the US, then you won’t make it anywhere else. America is the “Big Easy”. If you cannot respect the rights of others’ property, which they have a right to and pay them a fair market value for what they created, then get out. I mean it. Leave my country. Really, we would be a lot better off without you. Bye bye!

On the other hand many of the Authors that produce electronic books are people that struggle to make a living.

Don’t be a cheap skate buy a 2,3,4,5, or 10 dollar book you will be helping someone out.

Because information is information.

“How to do ‘Bad Things’” is not encouragement. It is information. It isn’t a Bad Thing.

DOING bad things is Bad. Knowing what they are is simply information.

I have yet to understand why such a simple concept, one that my children clearly understand, is utterly lost on supposedly adult thinking persons

-K

Yeah, pirating for the Kindle is possible, even easy. However, eBook readers as a whole have not gained enough traction to compel users/communities to undertake the necessary hard lifting involved in pirating books.

If one person buys a book and find it good. Bravo. If 10,000,000 look at a book via bit torrents, book store browsing, Google Book search, and good old libraries and that culminates in a 20% go out and buy the book thats 2,000,000 sales that might not of happened unless the book had the exposure it gets on the new media value chain. All said good ideas and writing will get read and disseminated in an exponential way. Crap get flushed quickly. Mediocre gets exposure and fades.

Ahead of the delivery of my Kindle in January I’ve already downloaded 750 ebooks, about 100 of which fit the above description.

I look at the Amazon purchase option as a nice addition, but figure only about 40% of my reading will be from books that will cost me any money.

Why not a Sony ebook? I’ve used the Kindle, and it’s a fantastic solution to my repetitive stress disorder afflicted hands and wrists. Pressing “next page” is physically painful on the Sony units, but easy and gentle on the Kindle. And I didn’t hit the page changing buttons “accidentally, because when I picked up the unit in a hurry, I pick it up “landscape” style, not “portrait”, voila, no buttons. It’s convenient to hold balanced on the hand, without gripping the top, which seems to be what’s tripping up people with accidental page changes.