Komitsuki, check out the wikipedia article on Lotterias.
Lotteria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The word McDonalds is written there almost as much as the word Lotterias. Lotterias might not have been had McDonalds not existed.
"Stop complaining. We have more piracy than never before and there is no way to bring the piracy rate down. You can complain this for the rest of your life."
This just sounds ridiculous. I can kind of understand things by giant corporations... maybe, but we're talking about a book written by a college teacher.
And X2cool... I know what you mean. $30+ is a gamble on something that you're not entirely sure about. I've wasted a ton of money on books in my day. On the bright side, you could always check out some libraries in your area. If they don't have it, ask your teacher-- maybe he or she has it.
Although there is something very cool about digitalized books that I'm lookign forward to... ctrl F. I can only imagine how many hours of my life I could've saved if they had a ctrl F function on paper books. If only I was born in the late 90's!