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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngeheuerLich" data-source="post: 4678355" data-attributes="member: 59057">It´s the same with music etc. These days I preview my music on youtube, and if i really like them, i go and buy it. What we need is something like youtube to preview the books when beeing online... this would save us some time reading everything in the shop. You can´t demnad that you buy something you have not been able to fully preview.And when you want to fully use Amazon or any other online shop, there must be a preview system which allows you to check what you want to buy. As long as this does not exist, pirated pdf´s help you to decide if something is worth its money or not. But as long it is illegal, even if that seems stupid to me, I will go to a shop and preview it there... as I do with CDs... (And I only buy CD´s in a shop, where I actually can preview them complete, not only in parts) And when I am too busy to go to the shop, i don´t buy, even if I would gladly spend my money on a book I like. I don´t know how many people only have books on pdfs, but i dare to say that most people who can afford buying the books do so, tose who pirate often can´t afford buing them... and those people often help advertising, so I don´t believe, piracy is a bad thing per se... Also books these days are really expensive... 30$ is quite a lot, often increased production cost and shipping cost is used to excuse a price increase... tell me how that compares to pdf pricing...</blockquote>

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