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There's also "Please Pirate This Book" blog posts all over the internet, for anyone who cares to look. http://www.40kbooks.com/?p=12879 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjourn...paulo_co.shtml http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012...s-pirate-books http://emergentchaos.com/archives/20...ks-please.html http://www.deccanchronicle.com/edito...oks-please-663 http://torrentfreak.com/my-book-please-081017/ http://jonathandallen.com/2012/01/18...rds-on-piracy/ Most of those are established authors. And that was about 30 seconds of Googling. Maybe you would want to have a conversation on the precise definition of "many", but it's certainly not "ludicrous in the extreme" that some authors are very publicly pro-piracy as regards their works. I would say "many" if you can find this many on a single Google search with no search tweaks whatsoever. And these are just the authors who write about being pro-piracy. And I've seen a dozen other famous (relatively speaking) indie authors say and do the same things. It's okay that you don't know about them, but now that you do, let's please stop talking about authors as a hive-mind of people who all feel the same way about piracy. Last edited by anamardoll; 02-25-2012 at 02:26 PM. |
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02-25-2012, 03:03 PM | #125 | |
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Piracy, by definition, is unauthorised copying. If you, as an author, say "it's perfectly OK to take a copy of my book without paying for it", as you have an absolute right to choose to do, then copying the book is no longer piracy, because you've given your permission for the copying to occur. That's very different to an author saying "it's OK to copy ANY book you want without paying for it", and (thank goodness) I don't see any of these authors doing that. I'd be pretty disgusted if any author were to say something like that. It's one thing for you to give away your own work for free; it's quite another to tell people that it's OK for them to take away the livelyhood of other authors. But one thing slightly puzzles me. If these authors want to give away their books for free, why don't they simply do that, rather than taking the somewhat hypocritical stance of nominally "selling" them, but then saying "but it's OK to get it without paying for it"? Isn't that rather unfair to those people who have paid for the book? |
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(J.A. Konrath)
He's the poster boy for self publishers, I doubt there's many of those who don't follow his blog. He doesn't actually say he's pro-piracy, he just says he's not bothered about it because it doesn't have any negative impact on his sales. "Pirate this book" was an experiment to prove this to the people who said it was nonsense, he got people to put it on pirate sites and then published his Amazon sales figures a few months later. In my opinion it was a flawed experiment because the publicity he got from doing it would have skewed his sales anyway. He really should have put it on the pirate sites himself and only told anyone about it after he had his sales figures. |
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@Harry,
Because the English language is funny like that. Piracy isn't illegal in some areas, but to most people "piracy" means someone other than the author uploading the book to a torrent for file sharing. As for why the author encourages it? I would say for many reasons. I ask people to pirate my book because: 1. Not all of my readers can access my books through the usual methods. 2. I trust my readers to use the Dark Net as a library and tip me should they so choose. 3. I consider obscurity to be a greater threat to my success as an author. You ask if this is fair to the readers who pay to read. Why wouldn't it be? As long as the author is up-front and honest about the situation, nothing is stopping the readers from making the choice -- as with the 40kbooks link above. Unfortunately, more indie authors *can't* be upfront with a "read for free!" link because Amazon will price match them and remove the easiest way for their readers to willingly tip them. (Paypal doesn't work for some folks.) |
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You really think Mr Ploppy's Guide to Snail Squashing will get the same protection as Harry Potter? Where I used to live was a no-go area for police, if you got burgled they wouldn't come out and look for clues or whatever it is they are supposed to do. I found a can of Special Brew after one of them, there would almost certainly have been fingerprints on it so I took it down to the station. Never heard anything from them, so they probably just threw it away. |
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I do not think that it is valuable to continue to compare intellectual property infringement (which is, iiuc, tort law in the US) with physical property infringement (which is, iiuc, criminal law in the US).
It's like saying that apples are like oranges because they are both fruits. Yes, they are both fruits. That doesn't mean that they have anything else in common, and I think that Argument By Analogy inevitably obscures the nuances of the issue at hand. |
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Interesting thread. So after two years of a tougher copyright enforcement law, what have we learned?
1. France has some how not descended into tyranny 2. A lot more people are obeying the law at a comparatively modest cost in law enforcement. Who woulda thunk it? Score one for law enforcement! Quote:
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