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Originally Posted by slayda
To change the topic - I wonder why publishers who "own" the rights to books don't take advantage of the book pirates by downloading their pirated books, cleaning them up and then selling them to the public. The pirates can't complain to the legal authorities without admitting to "criminal" activities. The publishers would no be committing a crime since they already own the rights to the book and it would probably be less costly for them than scanning, OCRing, and editing. The "honest" public would benefit since a "legal" version of the ebook would be available. Seems like both a win-win proposition and an effective way to combat piracy.
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How do you convince a head-in-the-sand publisher to
use the reading public rather than abuse it? Seriously. Look at what Project Gutenberg US has done with their Distributed Proofreading? Why not hire people to do proofreading the same way? Instead of cash outlay, how about payment in kind? For every 200 proofread pages, you get a e-book (possibly the one you are proofing.) Free labor for the publisher, the rest of the public get to buy more titles, and the proofreader gets as much as they would doing their own proofing, with the bonus of more well proofed books to buy.
If you don't like the scan, let somebody scan it as well, a la PG.
I'd certainly volunteer...