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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
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.
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authors like keene speak with a forked tongue on stuff like this.
on one hand "oh these dirty pirates are limiting my income". but on the other hand they intentionally kneecap themselves by releasing 30 copies of a book which will inevitably end up in the hands of speculators who are only looking to flip it for 3x the price (a dime of which keene won't see either).
don't cry to me when you're limiting your profits yourself from day 1.
i have said book in its pirate form. i also own almost everything the man has ever written in hardcopy and i've handed him cash money for his autograph at cons. this public display made me lose a lot of respect for him.