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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
This starts with the obvious "scan the book & release the scans," which is what happens with books with no legit digital version. If there's enough interest, someone runs OCR on them. More interest than that, and the OCR text gets corrected, and maybe formatted into epub or mobi.
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Then there will be a bunch of different versions floating around, some with a good proofreading job, and some with a bad, and it will be hard to know which to trust. OCR-scan based piracy means less piracy.
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Do they really think people who borrowed a library book are more likely to crack and distribute than people who bought it?
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I don't know what they think. Maybe they have a variety of views. But I think it. People who paid good money for the book are going to be more likely to think others should also pay. (It's true that library borrowers did pay for the book, through their taxes. But some forget that.)
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Hatchette, of course, doesn't mind at all if an author can't sell their backlist on Smashwords and can't sell the movie rights because they can't guarantee the movie will be released with DRM.
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You really think they will stop their books from being made into movies? I don't. If that's what the contract says, it is mistaken and can be changed or ignored.