[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Interesting her potential buyers are pirating. That strikes me as sort of fishy.
Hey question: if you were doing something wrong, would you announce it for the whole world to see?

I don't think anyone announced anything. She went to the pirate sites and read the comments.

Let's see. Hardback comes out first. Upset readers review. Ebook readers don't buy.

These were e-ARCs uploaded before the book was available as hardback or paperback

Here is what I read. I asked the publisher not to give out arcs.

She asked the publisher not to give out e-ARCs of book 4 because she found e-ARCS of book 3 on the pirate sites.

My brother uploaded to the pirate sites. She didn't have the rights to give her brother any part of the book.

They made a phony e-ARC of book 4 that was just the sample, repeated to mimic the length of a real book.

Let's see, it took brother a very little time to do this. That tells me he has probably done it before.

Based on what? Do you think every pirate has to take a master's class to learn how to do it? It's not much more difficult than responding to this thread.

I hope her publisher reads her blog. I don't care if it was just a part or all of it, she pirated it herself. So she stole from her publisher. She knew it was illegal and still did it.

You have very little to nothing to base this on. How do you know her publisher wasn't well aware? If she went through that much trouble to prove her point, do you think she didn't tell someone at her publishing company?

Hey, here is the thing. I know it was just to prove a point.
Let's see. She doesn't have to publish herself. She had her brother pirate it for her.
The first one is bad enough, the second one is conspiracy to commit a crime.

I got lost in there. What's the first one? What's the second?

Having said all that, I do have issues with the conclusions she reached. It's just if you are going to argue with it, at least represent her points fairly.