In games, we know who has won... You get the reinforcement for having played well.
People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.
Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.
The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.
It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.
