"I like paying for it so the author gets paid " I've been thinking about this: If this is the only reason you use an ebook-store (like the Kindle store), this

"I like paying for it so the author gets paid " I've been thinking about this: If this is the only reason you use an ebook-store (like the Kindle store), this would be fairly easy to create a 100% competitor for - after all, there's no law against creating a site for giving money to your favourite authors! ...and then you could create a plugin/API for embedding a "pay for book" button onto other sites - like pirate book sites, and the ONLY weapon Amazon would have against it would be the legal weapon against the pirate sites! Also you'd probably want the give-authors-money site to be run by a trustworthy nonprofit.