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Originally Posted by crane3
Piracy? I believe that I had bought all of David Weber's Honor Harrington books, not all were hard backs. Now, the hardbacks have a cd-rom that had the books in various ebook formats. I did copy the epub books from the cd-rom onto my tablets. Is this "piracy" if I got rid of the printed books to save shelf space? The epub books included the paperback copies.
Then if someone did not buy all the printed books but just the last ones & transferred the epub books to their library, would they be considered pirates?
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The CDs were not bound into all the Baen hardcovers. As to what you could do with the files, I'll quote from David Drake's orientation on one:
The files on this CD are not encrypted. Jim doesn't understand the logic of making his books hard for people to read. Neither do I, though we seem to be in the minority among publishers and authors. Read them. Copy them. Give them to your friends. Dive into them like a porpoise, throw them up in the air and let them fall down on your—no, that was something different.
You're not supposed to sell the files. "Who'd be stupid enough to buy something they could have for free?" you may well ask yourself. If you do sell them, you are a Bad Person and may later exhibit signs of wanting to run for political office; but between you and me, I'm not going to come hunt you down. — David Drake
And yes, I still have my copies of the all the CDs from my hardcovers. This includes the one from Cryoburn that Lois McMaster Bujold wanted removed because she did not understand that Baen was going to put a good chunk of her novels plus the Vorkosigan Companion on the CD. Always read the not so fine print...