From buyer's point of view, spending a few hundred dollars buying a book is not that bad, as long as the book keeps its value and can be sold at similar amount of money in case of need. So far, at least I can confirm Still's books keep value.
The worst scenario is you buy a book which cost you a few hundred dollars, and later on, some people print illegal copy of it, selling, say $30 (or free, some copiers upload PDFs on the internet). As a buyer of the original copy, you lose money.
So, please don't lend your copy to those people scanning the whole book into PDFs. I noticed making copies of books is not considered being an issue in some culture. As an owner of original copy, we don't have to fight that, but we don't have to help them either.
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