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Originally Posted by anamardoll
OK, so I was finally able to get to this, via google. (My god, what a badly designed blog. You can't permalink to any of the posts, at least not that I can see. PLEASE, FAMOUS AUTHORS, HIRE DECENT TECH PEOPLE.)
Yes, she does say that Google has pirated her works, but that blog entry #19 appears to have nothing whatsoever to do with her stance on ebooks. So it was the quoted poster who (apparently) decided to make the jump between Google Isn't Respecting Me to So I'll Take My Ball And Go Home. +1 for Le Guin?
It's a muddled article, though. She fully admits the problems inherent in The Mickey Mouse act and wants "Congress" to act (not sure how this will help other countries, but I guess it has to start somewhere), but she's still upset about Google trying to archive and preserve orphaned works.
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Thanks for this and your earlier message plus the one from Kenny about where I might find the article about Le Guin not allowing her books to be turned into ebooks.
I have spent quite some time going through the various articles linked to her website about the whole Google/copyright thing. It is complex and I can't swear to have read every single word on the website, but nowhere have I found her stating that she will not permit her books to be digitised legally. She objects, and it seems to me perfectly reasonably, to having Google or anyone else "pirate" her work.
This possibly doesn't matter one way or the other, except that I'm not prepared to accept something as fact just because a third party says it is so, whether I read it in the paper or on Mobile Read, or wherever.