Comment by uyzstvqs
2 hours ago
Once more: Piracy is almost always a service problem, not a pricing problem.
If there was an online e-book store where you could buy most books as DRM-free epub files, and you could read the first X pages for free, I guarantee you that nobody here would care about the OP article. It would have maybe 4 or 5 upvotes.
This is a bit of a fairytale. Probably true for a certain subset of high earning westerners. Not true in general.