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Originally Posted by H-P
Is someone here has allready recopy a full paperbook to create an ebook ?
In my case, i definitly think that is unfair competition to cut and paste content done by volunteers, and making business with this kind of work.
This is unfair, because a publisher which work in this book industry can't pay salary, tax,...to create ebooks publications and stay in competition with someone who's pay nothing by using this kind of work.
Work done for free by free volunteers has to stay outside the business market. that definitly my point of view. I also think than a lot of volunteers who's created textes this last 10 years, didn't do it for some f... lazy guys.
---> Joykin, when you work 2, 3 weeks to make serious work for one ebook. And someone come with the full gutemberg in one ebook for 1 dollar. Do you think than you can sell your ebook for one dollar = one month of work.
And if you say, yes. The customer should have the choice between full books of one author, against one book...
And after making a good ebook, a stupid domain public guy (world is free (except for my house, my car, my ipad,, my..., my....), will think that domain public, i can cut and past it on Gutemberg, and an other stupid domain public guy, nice! a new free work that i can ressell it. Thank you so much nice volunteer !
If it's not an unfair competition it's a f.....competition.  |
I might point out that the books here at MR are based on Gutenberg editions which were put together by volunteers. Of course MR doesn't charge anything for downloading books that members have fixed and then uploaded either, but under your rules MR is taking $ away from traditional publishers who make ebook editions of classic PD books.