“Piracy” here is used in the context of books and all sorts of manuscripts.
r/books have three main arguments against it:
- It is technically theft
- It damages the author’s job and income (as well as the publisher, illustrator…etc.)
- Why go through the tedious path of pirating books when you can borrow the books from a library legally and for free.
What’s your reply to those arguments? Are they satisfactory?
If I can’t get a DRM free (as in no restrictions which devices/apps can open the file) epub file of your book, I ain’t buying it. I will not spend money purchasing a product that can then just be stolen from me again because the seller decides to discontinue their drm, abandon support for the device I read on or simply for not liking me.