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My more tech savvy friends do have Kindle's with US or UK accounts so they can get stuff legitimately. Some like myself pay through the nose for shipping from Amazon (if you buy one book it doubles the price) and some wait until they travel to buy books overseas (they are rather heavy though and destroy your luggage quota).

Sadly in many cases, it is easier and quicker for people to pirate it.

Anyway just happened to read this article and found it quite pertinent:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/and-the-award-for-the-most-dead-entertainment-medium-goes-to-the-web/";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:4:"2597";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ip";s:12:"60.49.183.34";s:10:"user_agent";s:90:"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13";s:8:"referrer";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:4:"blog";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:9:"user_role";s:0:"";s:21:"akismet_comment_nonce";s:6:"passed";s:11:"POST_author";s:12:"ShaolinTiger";s:10:"POST_email";s:25:"shaolinbadboy@hotmail.com";s:8:"POST_url";s:27:"http://www.shaolintiger.com";s:12:"POST_comment";s:789:"Yah I agree, KL is a great place - you should stop by again some day. There's a lot more reading going on and well I honestly hope that Borders going bust in the US doesn't close down our Borders here too.

My more tech savvy friends do have Kindle's with US or UK accounts so they can get stuff legitimately. Some like myself pay through the nose for shipping from Amazon (if you buy one book it doubles the price) and some wait until they travel to buy books overseas (they are rather heavy though and destroy your luggage quota).

Sadly in many cases, it is easier and quicker for people to pirate it.

Anyway just happened to read this article and found it quite pertinent:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/and-the-award-for-the-most-dead-entertainment-medium-goes-to-the-web/";s:11:"POST_submit";s:12:"Post Comment";s:20:"POST_comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:19:"POST_comment_parent";s:4:"2597";s:26:"POST_akismet_comment_nonce";s:10:"287a520c84";s:15:"SERVER_SOFTWARE";s:79:"Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4";s:11:"REQUEST_URI";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:14:"CONTENT_LENGTH";s:4:"1051";s:12:"CONTENT_TYPE";s:33:"application/x-www-form-urlencoded";s:13:"DOCUMENT_ROOT";s:42:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com";s:17:"GATEWAY_INTERFACE";s:7:"CGI/1.1";s:11:"HTTP_ACCEPT";s:63:"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8";s:19:"HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET";s:30:"ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING";s:12:"gzip,deflate";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:14:"en-us,en;q=0.5";s:18:"HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL";s:14:"max-age=259200";s:15:"HTTP_CONNECTION";s:10:"keep-alive";s:11:"HTTP_COOKIE";s:0:"";s:9:"HTTP_HOST";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:12:"HTTP_REFERER";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:15:"HTTP_USER_AGENT";s:90:"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13";s:8:"HTTP_VIA";s:53:"1.1 halimah.omnilogic.com.my:3128 (squid/2.7.STABLE3)";s:20:"HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR";s:14:"192.168.13.144";s:4:"PATH";s:13:"/bin:/usr/bin";s:12:"QUERY_STRING";s:0:"";s:15:"REDIRECT_STATUS";s:3:"200";s:11:"REMOTE_ADDR";s:12:"60.49.183.34";s:11:"REMOTE_PORT";s:5:"44575";s:14:"REQUEST_METHOD";s:4:"POST";s:15:"SCRIPT_FILENAME";s:63:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SCRIPT_NAME";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SERVER_ADDR";s:14:"67.225.237.100";s:12:"SERVER_ADMIN";s:37:"webmaster@davidhewson.davidhewson.net";s:11:"SERVER_NAME";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"SERVER_PORT";s:2:"80";s:15:"SERVER_PROTOCOL";s:8:"HTTP/1.0";s:16:"SERVER_SIGNATURE";s:133:"<address>Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at davidhewson.com Port 80</address>
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