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Originally Posted by Harper Kingsley
Well, I personally get very sad when I Google my name and find out that people are downloading my books all over the Internet. Anyone can say that books should be free and I don't deserve compensation for my work because it's not really work, it's just words on a page, but I do like to feed my kids and I would really like to be out of debt someday.
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I think you may have misunderstood what this discussion is about. No one is talking about pirating books in this thread; we're talking about transferring a *single* copy of an ebook someone has purchased to another person
and then deleting all the copies they own of it. Just like with a pbook, the author received their payment with the initial purchase, and just like with a pbook, that purchase has now transfered from one owner to another owner, and the original owner no longer has the work. So what has been proposed is a hand-off operating in exactly the same manner as it would with a pbook, which no one raises concerns about the authors not receiving compensation for.
Your only rebuttle has been that ebooks don't wear out like pbooks, therefore the author is not receiving compensation when ownership of an ebook is transferred. Which doesn't fully make sense to me in light of the proposed transfer which would happen just like a pbook. But now you've begun talking about piracy, where people give away multiple copies of your book for free. Now that certainly cheats authors of their due, and it makes sense that would upset you. But that's not what we're talking about in this thread.