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I've a thought. If I enjoy a pirated ebook, and I want to give back to the author, what would be more morally acceptable?
>i buy the physical book
>i buy ebook
>i send the money directly to the author
>something else?
With first I help the physical book market. Publisher gets his cut. Author gets his. Trees die.
With second I help ebook market. Publisher gets maybe a slightly bigger cut. Author gets his. People employed in printing lose jobs.
With third author gets a big cut, he feels directly appreciated, but it's harming his sales statistics, and his standing with publisher.
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>>8962087
Buy print book. Donate to library
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>>8962087
Unworthy resolution, sorry bout that.
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A single tree has enough wood to make hundreds of books. You not buying or buying books is not significantly impacting the environment.
You know the junk you get in the mail every day? I hope you recycle that.
>The US uses approx. 68 million trees each year to produce 17 billion catalogues and 65 billion pieces of direct mail.
That's 0.2 trees per person spent on mailers each year. Recycling all the waste paper you receive is far, far more important than forgoing physical books. Extremely important for businesses as 50% of their waste is paper.
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>>8962311
Yeah right. I'm not completely certain on what paper is used on catalogues in us, but it's quite possibly low quality recycled, often with calcium-carbonate coatings to make it look high class. Never as high quality as books.
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>>8962087
>something else?
strategically shill the author on your litspot of interest. That sort of marketing boost is ultimately worth more to the author than one book's cut
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