I personally thinks that people who complains so much about price is fickle minded. Who's asking you to buy book every week/day? I am sure it's not that hard to save say RM50± per month (if you can eat 2-3 meals of fast food every month you have no excuse not being able to save that amount of money).

Photocopying... Most student do this isn't it? Not enough money (no income) + library has limited copies. I think as long as you are not selling them for profit, it's okay.

I am not sure about e-books as I don't read them. I don't like starring at the skrin for a 500+ pages book. (Unless it's some journal or papers with less than 20 pages, that's still okay. I read them between my break time in office.) And I love the fact that I can bring my book anywhere and read it in betweens my travelling/free time.

Bootleg printings has so much translation error and printing quality, makes me wonder why people are willing to spend money on it.