Thread: Why e-books?
View Single Post
Old 11-16-2016, 01:17 PM   #438
Cinisajoy
Just a Yellow Smiley.
Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Cinisajoy's Avatar
 
Posts: 19,161
Karma: 83862859
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Texas
Device: K4, K5, fire, kobo, galaxy
Quote:
Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
Not precisely. First sale doctrine (which is what we are talking about) was actually put into US copyright law in 1978, though the courts had carved out that distinction well before then. It's application varies from country to country. Some authors still hold that selling used books is the equivalent of stealing.
Some authors think libraries and Kindle Unlimited are stealing too.
It should be noted most of those authors are not well known nor will they ever be well known because their books are not that good by pretty much any reader's standards.
Most of those authors have an MSDS attitude or in prettier terms, "the greatest gift to writing ever".
Cinisajoy is offline   Reply With Quote