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Originally Posted by pwarren
Yah, the Harry Potter reference quality ebook collection that I've acquired have been the most beautifully formatted ebooks I've ever found. IMHO J.K.R. should pay those pirates for doign what her publishes can't! (or is it she herself who doesn't want ebooks, I forget)
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She doesn't need to pay the pirates--they didn't have permission to make the works in the first place; they don't have copyright on it.
I'm surprised more authors who want to convert their older works to ebooks don't just go download them through the torrent network (after all, it's not illegal for them to get copies of their own works), and proofread & edit those, instead of starting from scratch.
(From what I hear, the new Tolkein ebooks were *not* made from the .txt versions that have been floating around since 2001. Those don't have typos in the titles.)