Until a viable system for handling the business side develops, it will be hard to get creators who want to profit from their creative works to stop supporting the current one.

Yeah, exactly, and like I said, I really do think that janni and Karen Healey and Sarah Rees Brennan and everyone deserve to profit from their creativity; the publishing system is how their content gets provided to their readers, and it's totally legitimate to expect that everyone involved should be able to pay or to receive a fair price for the work they put into it. But U.S. publishers need to stop auditioning for the role of "the U.S. music industry, ca. 12 years ago" and get their acts together on the (global) ease of access front, and the "1 pirated book = 1 lost sale" canard needs to die a well-deserved death, not that you said that.

And, not that this applies to you or to anyone else in this debate afaik, quite frankly I think anyone who excoriates people for reading books out of libraries doesn't deserve the time of day, let alone to be taken seriously.