Quote:
Originally Posted by queentess
Please try not to bring piracy into this. I feel this is a different issue, where one person is offering to distribute a book to a book club for reading and discussion.
|
I'm not sure you can avoid the piracy discussion. Isn't the problem that you share the book with me in the bookclub and then I share it with 32,000 of my closest Facebook friends? What about if the particular book club group has 1500 members rather than 5 members? If I lend you or share with you my pbook copy, either I have to buy you a copy or give you my purchased copy. If I share with you my ebook, then I have stripped the DRM to make it shareable (assuming it is a DRMed book) and I am pirating it because I do not have to give up my copy or buy you a copy.
So how do you avoid the piracy question? Isn't it integral to the act under discussion?