text: And if professors and graduate students aren't buying these books, who is? It's not just the independent authors getting screwed here, it's the small presses. These professors and grad students seem to think that a small press exists to provide them with free books. How do they pay their staff and produce more books?
  
  And what is especially shocking about this story is that it was *not* just a "graduate student context": Professor Brown scanned these books and put them up on the world wide web: how did he think that was OK? For $15 books published last year by a small Canadian press?
  
  And as cecyl just pointed out, you don't need to buy 100 books to read 100 books a year. The university has a library. These students and professors just want everything free with a click of their mouse. They don't realize or don't care what it does to the "ecology" of books - libraries without patrons, small presses without customers.