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ProfCrash · 05-21-2012, 12:55 PM

My position has nothing to do with the agreement, I have never read the silly thing. I don't have to read it to know that buying a book, stripping the DRM, and then handing it out to friends and family in that form is piracy.

If I want my friends and family to be able to read books that I have bought, I will add them to my Kindle account and we can share that way. They have access to the books in a legal fashion.

I don't need to read the Kindle agreement to know that a paperback book is a different format than an ebook. If I want a movie in Blu Ray and I own the movie as a regular DVD, I have to buy the Blu Ray DVD. If I own the paperback and I want the ebook I need to buy the ebook or scan the paperback myself. The format is different. Someone for the company scanned and tried to clean up that book and formatted it. Or someone upload the Word Document and formatted it. There is a cost associated with the act, it is not just something that happens. The author still deserves his/her royalty payment from the sale of his/her work.

It is up to each individual to decide what is right and wrong and to act on it. For me, downloading books for free that are being sold in bookstores, is piracy and that is wrong. Most of the people here who are doing this can come up with a great list of excuses but, in the end, they are simply excuses.

I am sorry that you bought a ton of books that you could not read hoping that one day you would be able to read them. That was a choice that you made. Now you have an e-reader and you can read. Buy the books you want to read, don't pirate them and justify it saying that you spent money on books that you knew you could not read at the time.

I just ignores the silliness of the argument that writers shouldn't care if people pirate their work because they are writing out of love of writing and not trying to provide for their families.

There are legitimate ways to lend books, feel free to use those. Add those folks to your account. If you are not close enough to them to add them to your account, I suggest using the library. The author gets paid and you are not breaking the law.

05-21-2012, 12:55 PM	#46
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	My position has nothing to do with the agreement, I have never read the silly thing. I don't have to read it to know that buying a book, stripping the DRM, and then handing it out to friends and family in that form is piracy. If I want my friends and family to be able to read books that I have bought, I will add them to my Kindle account and we can share that way. They have access to the books in a legal fashion. I don't need to read the Kindle agreement to know that a paperback book is a different format than an ebook. If I want a movie in Blu Ray and I own the movie as a regular DVD, I have to buy the Blu Ray DVD. If I own the paperback and I want the ebook I need to buy the ebook or scan the paperback myself. The format is different. Someone for the company scanned and tried to clean up that book and formatted it. Or someone upload the Word Document and formatted it. There is a cost associated with the act, it is not just something that happens. The author still deserves his/her royalty payment from the sale of his/her work. It is up to each individual to decide what is right and wrong and to act on it. For me, downloading books for free that are being sold in bookstores, is piracy and that is wrong. Most of the people here who are doing this can come up with a great list of excuses but, in the end, they are simply excuses. I am sorry that you bought a ton of books that you could not read hoping that one day you would be able to read them. That was a choice that you made. Now you have an e-reader and you can read. Buy the books you want to read, don't pirate them and justify it saying that you spent money on books that you knew you could not read at the time. I just ignores the silliness of the argument that writers shouldn't care if people pirate their work because they are writing out of love of writing and not trying to provide for their families. There are legitimate ways to lend books, feel free to use those. Add those folks to your account. If you are not close enough to them to add them to your account, I suggest using the library. The author gets paid and you are not breaking the law.