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Originally Posted by fargo
Nothing would stop someone to do that to a pbook. I'm sure, though, that the tamperer would not find a publisher to publish 'hiz' new book. He and his grandson may be the only ones reading the counterfeit book 
It is totally different with ebooks. A counterfeited book can spread as the authentic one, if not even wider. |
You're not aware that there are several fine tools for detecting plagarism?
And further, unless the publisher is a very small company, chances are that no publisher is going to take on the risk of publishing a work that is so similar to one already out there. After all, you're talking about an essentially *exact* word-for-word copy. That's already protected by copyright laws and any publisher who knowingly goes along with such an attempt is going to find itself in deep cow-dung, legally. And even if the publisher doesn't notice the plagarism, it will certainly act on it as soon as the original author detects it and brings suit.
Ebooks are covered the same way as pbooks.
Further, if you have an idea that a particular person is going to attempt to do this, I must ask, why are you associating with that person. And if you don't have current contact with such a person, why worry about it?
Stories follow certain general plot groups. It is not unlikely that a fiction work you create will have similarities to other works. But consumers are usually smart enough to tell when a given work is simply another work with the names changed to protect the guilty.
Derek