I hope you do not include me in the pro-piracy category! I buy books and I like to hold them in my hands before buying. I've even bought books to reward, in som

I hope you do not include me in the pro-piracy category! I buy books and I like to hold them in my hands before buying. I've even bought books to reward, in some small way, authors that seem like good people. Unfortunately, as in most things, the context of my question seems to have gotten ignored: > As consumers, we are regularly told that price of goods or services is absolutely all that matters. Modern anti-trust law pivots on this principle. Modern attitudes toward labor and hourly rates are based on this principle. Why are we asked to abandon this only in select cases, cases where we as consumers, end up carrying the bulk of the burden?