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Originally Posted by jhellingman
I would contact the author directly, and politely explain him that his publisher is not allowing me to buy his book; and also that I have (at least in the Netherlands) the legal alternative means of downloading it from some unauthorized source, that unfortunately will not result in royalties being paid to him either, but that you are willing to donate such missed royalties directly to him.
Readers really should try to get authors on their side in their fight against customer unfriendly behaviour of publishers.
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The authors I've contacted over issues like this have either been apathetic (The publisher sorts all that out) or hostile against ebooks. This is fairly surprising since I've been contacting sci-fi authors. Only one has been encouraging. He didn't know the details of his ebook versions but he'd bring my problems to the attention of his publisher.
Considering that the end product is often their only source of income you'd have thought the authors would be keen to get themselves involved in how their books are marketted and sold. One sci-fi author (Who shall remain nameless) has been getting very annoyed at people on his blog who ask about ebook versions. It's crazy.