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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Well, I mean, I'm not even willing to go that far. Lawyers are expensive and this sort of thing is a bottomless pit. I wouldn't sue.
I can see complaining if it was like "guys, please stop circulating it for free when I'm trying to make a living selling it for $4.99 on the site. That's the cost of a Subway sandwich, please, c'mon." Like, THAT, I'm like, okay, author-guy, that sounds reasonable.
But "guys, please stop circulating it for free when there are $50 copies to buy". No. Seriously? Who are you? I wouldn't pay $50 for a signed anything unless it was from Douglas Adams and it was a posthumous signature.
Limited editions don't benefit the author, they benefit eBay. And everyone else loses, and your audience gets to feel like you don't care about them unless they're the 1% of people who can drop $50 on a single book on a whim. Bah.
Again: Wouldn't download his books, but I reserve the right to think he's a whelk.
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It may very well be a really dumb move by the author (those limited editions), but it is his decision and others should respect it. He is allowed to make his own mistakes.