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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Actually, there are places where pbook piracy (in actual print) is not only practical but very profitable:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/gal...k-pirates-peru
More, the Manhattan mafia itself has its roots in the "land pirates" of the 19th century whose entire business model was about buying books in London at launch, shipping them to NY asap, and publishing unauthorized editions en masse. Very profitable. British publishers reciprocated but Dickens and Kipling, et al were more bankable in the US than Emerson, Hawthorne, etc were in England.
The english authors were far from amused. Livid was an understatement. Kipling for one spent a lot of time looking for a "solution".
Here's his tale of woe:
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/pape...rdspirates.htm |
Dickens was absolutely furious about piracy of his books in the US.