Make it easier and cheaper, and they will pay for it

One of the alleged reasons for literacy piracy is the PROHIBITIVE COST of digital items and the difficulty of downloading. Do we really need a seaparte "reader"? Can't we simply download to our phones or computers and read e-books there?

http://blog.vromans.com/the-threat-of-ebook-piracy/

And isn't there a way to compensate writers for every single download? Certainly digital tracking is easy these days, and it must be possible to pay writers royalties on every single use of their works.