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Old 10-23-2010, 05:28 PM   #1
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Comic Book "Pirated" on 4Chan, Author joins discussion... watches sales soar

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Comic Book 'Pirated' On 4Chan, Author Joins Discussion... Watches Sales Soar
from the connect-with-fans dept

Paul Watson points us to yet another example of how engaging with fans of your work (even if, technically, they infringed on your copyrights) can lead to pretty happy outcomes for everyone. The basic details are that comic book artist Steve Lieber discovered that folks at 4chan had scanned in and uploaded every page of his graphic novel Underground. Now, the typical reaction is to freak out, scream "piracy," whine about "losses" and demand that "something must be done." But, in a world where obscurity is really a much bigger issue than "piracy," another option is to actually engage with those fans who liked his work so much that they put in the effort to share it with the world. And that's exactly what Lieber did. He went to the site and actually started talking about the work with the folks on 4chan
Full article here: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...les-soar.shtml

Author's website here: http://www.undergroundthecomic.com/

Apparently the author's etsy site is completely sold out of this particular graphic novel, and they've had to reprint.

btw I did search for this, a few times with different combinations but couldn't find it.
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