[Peadar Ó Guilín]

Originally Posted by Format C:

Anger is IMHO a big waste of energy.
A war is a lose-lose.

Si', e perloppiu', vado d'accordo con te.

I wouldn't want anybody to think for a minute that I would ever prosecute some school boy for scanning my book! We were all young once and I'm not talking about life or death here.

Originally Posted by Elena

you know, there is almost nothing available as a commercial ebook in italian. Everything you find as an electronic book is either free or pirate, and in both cases comes from readers scanning a book they own.
I happen to sometimes download illegally a book I'd be happy to have the opportunity to buy.

Do you, as an author, ever discuss the matter with your foreign language publishers?

My Italian friends tell me there are also very few people there with ebook readers. If any of the downloaders actually try to read my novel, they'll be suffering through it on a glaring laptop screen. Good luck to them with that! But you make another good point about taking the initiative and talking to the publishers. Now, here's a thing: most authors that I know of, don't deal directly with their foreign language publishers, but it would definitely be something for me to say to my agent.

Originally Posted by dadioflex

I read the "Inferior" last weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it BTW - spent a fiver on the hardback at Amazon's marketplace. ...

Oh, another thing - the paperback cover isn't great compared to the hardback cover as seen in Peadar's avatar. A guy who saw me open the envelope with the HB asked to borrow it purely based on the cover, even after I explained what it was about. Apparently he's a Jean M Auel fan so make of that what you will.

Thanks a lot, dadioflex, I really appreciate it! You point about the cover is interesting, but one thing I've found is that women almost universally prefer the one on the paperback. Don't ask me why that is, though.

And yes, my website is way out of date in design terms. Suggestions for improvements are always welcome, although, I'm a bit lacking in funds at the moment, so by the time I've implemented them, it will still be out of date

Originally Posted by haridasi

I just added your book to my wishlist, so I will eventually get to it. So, your concern on torrent download will at least earn you one sale.

Thank you, haridasi (or should I say, 'tak'?), that would make you my fourth Norwegian