With publishers delaying e-book releases to encourage hardcover, real-book sales, what is the new and hip Kindle consumer to do?
What if you buy the hardcover, and then pirate an early electronic copy for free? Are publishing companies single handedly conspiring with the likes of Stephen King to destroy the planets forests? Or are they simply employing a new marketing tactic, called “windowing,” which the conscientious consumer should abide and respect?
The New York Times’ ethics column answers these questions and more, exploring with ample sarcasm topics from the plight of the planet’s resources to clocking work hours over gin and tonics. So… ethical or not? The internets may never know.
