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Originally Posted by 5thWiggle
Normaly I don't get into these arguments, but
From the blog (emphisis mine):
So more like: Writer doing something special for blog fans (much like a free giveaway at a bookstore -you snooze, you lose) and Fan delibrately going against Writers' wishes.
(my one and only post on the subject. I now retire to the sidelines.  ) |
I was there when he first started serialising it, and there was no mention of it being removed when it was finished back then. Though he did warn that it would be gone a couple of months before the last episode went online, and said that anyone who was interested should either read it now or save it for later. It was basically advertising that brought people to his website each week looking for a new episode.
But it's not really about his legal right to remove it, or even his moral obligation not to, it's about his apparent surprise that one of his fans would want to preserve it in its original form after it was gone.
I get that there is more money to be made from hardbacks for the speculator market than there is for mass-market releases for readers, which will be why writers like that like to restrict how many people are allowed to read their work. But these days, it really shouldn't come as any surprise when the readers don't play along with that and make their own mass-market edition. It's pretty much inevitable.