Thread: Do you pirate books and why?
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Old 02-24-2012, 07:05 AM   #464
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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister View Post
I am converting a lot of my disintegrating paperbacks to e-book format, specially my mountain of old Agatha Christie paperbacks. My starting point for these has been the net, looking for on-line searchable magazine and newspaper serialisation versions. I have found about 18 Aggies so far, downloaded the automatic OCRs, and then laboriously hand-corrected the OCRs against my paperbacks, before creating the e-book editions for myself. I don't trade these, I don't sell them. Is that piracy?
All of Agatha Christie's books are still in copyright in Australia. I would have thought that they're also all available as ebooks in Australia.

Copyright piracy? Probably. The UK doesn't have any laws allowing format conversion, and I suspect that Australia doesn't either.
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