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Quote Originally Posted by Shadenuat

Assuming that every single book available in electronic form will be pirated (which is apparently universal assumption in this thread). As someone who has extremely limited funds on his disposal, I admit to having having combed the net for certain textbooks. I failed to track down any of them and to cash out for used paperback copies. Also, if you take a look at reddit's piracy board, extreme difficulty/impossibility of tracking down specific textbooks online is a rather common "complaint" among that jolly crowd.

Reddit and google are not the most resourceful sites for textbook piracy. I'm ashamed to admit this but I contributed to the e-textbook problem myself. About 60% of the time, I could find an earlier edition of the required textbook.

Quote Originally Posted by Speaking Mute

I don't see much indication that readers have moved on from physical books - more telling then the recent decline in ebook sales is market research showing that younger readers prefer print books for the same same reasons as older readers: https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...-uk-book-sales http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/bookm...textbooks.html http://www.techtimes.com/articles/13...er-e-books.htm

Maybe my fear is feeding itself. I'd like to be optimistic and say print is coming back because of the reading experience but I'd say the decline in e-book and the rise in print is due to Amazon's rental policy (for textbooks) and holiday sale. Amazon cuts back its loss by raising e-book prices.

More here The Myth About Print Coming Back (Updated) | Jane Friedman and I quote:

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"But note that’s an average across all genres and categories; if you look at fiction alone, sales are about half digital for traditionally published books. Once you factor in the nontraditional sales (self-published titles and Amazon Publishing titles), it would be within reason to expect about all fiction sales to be about 70% digital."