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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Bootleg comic books are scans, not text; the people who want to read them agree that the artwork is essential. They do not, however, have holograms on the covers, even if the paper copies do; the readers have decided that's not important.
You have the right to decide a certain kind of paper is all you're willing to print on. You don't have the right to decide that the paper is essential to the reader's experience, any more than a painter has the right to insist their work only be displayed under full-spectrum lights, or a movie producer has the right to insist the movie be shown on larger-than-65" screens. If someone buys your book and photocopies it at 150% original size in order to read the smaller text, they'll lose that special paper--and you don't get to control that. If they convert it themselves to an ebook in order to have text-to-speech program read it to them, again, you don't have the right to stop them. (In the US. I gather UK laws are different.)
If you want to control how your work is experienced, don't publish it. Once it's released to the public, your control is very limited.
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Actually, you are wrong... the paper is handcrafted with textures and images both embossed and impressed into it together with word patterns and other things so I do have the right to decide it is essential to the reading experience because I designed it that way, any other version is not the work... and yes, an artist can insist upon how work is displayed (until it is sold) and a movie producer can insist on a movie being shown on larger than 65" screens, it is not compulsory to put it out on DVD... and all the rest assumes that the primary output from the book relates to its words, that is not necessarily so... I have many books which are an artistic experience with the book being a complete concept.
Text-to-speech will work really great on a 200 page artistic concept item with ONE printed word per page... the item is designed to be treated as an entirety not a chop and match, now someone may convert it that way but they're not going to enjoy it and they DON'T have the right to sell that as the work to other people... oh and I never said the hypothetical work had small text, you're assuming again, and photocopying something, on artistically textured and designed paper, is probably going to end up being more difficult to read than the original... this also doesn't mean that someone who chooses to butcher the work can then sell it on...