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Well, during the run-up to my producing ebooks of my Chaos Chronicles series for free download, I mentioned on my blog that I was thinking of making my new book available as a download. A reader commented that a whole bunch of my earlier books were already available on bit-torrent pirate sites, and he even zipped up a bunch of them and sent them to me. It was a haphazard assortment of PDFs, all apparently from scanned and OCR'd books. They ranged from unreadable hack-jobs to quite carefully constructed documents.
I'd had no idea they were there, and my first reaction was like that of the author mentioned above: a deep growl. But as I thought about it, I decided, what the hey--it was free publicity, and even though some of them competed with commercial ebook versions, it was still probably better for me than that other doom, obscurity.
So I just forged on with my own project and didn't think much more about it.
Just a week or so ago, someone on my town email list posted a notice to local authors that she'd found one of her books up on Scrib'd without her permission. I checked to see if mine were there, and found that someone had reposted the one-time Tor freebie of my Battlestar Galactica novelization. I didn't worry about that, either, because in fact I had just asked if I could get permission to put that up for free, too! (I'm still waiting to hear.)
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