Thread: Is piracy likely to harm ebook sales?
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Old 04-03-2010, 02:38 PM   #137
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53 View Post
Hmm, I'd never heard that about Harlan Ellison. Loved his work, but I tend to love the books (or music, or film) without much caring about who the author is. Being aggressive about his copyright would not make feel more or less justified in pirating an author's work.
I doubt if many of the people either uploading or downloading digital copies of his books have ever read any of them, that won't be the motivation in this particular case. (Metallica got the same treatment over on the music side).

But to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, there's only one thing worse than being pirated and that is not being pirated. If nobody likes your old book/record/comic/film enough to think it is worth preserving for the digital age, then it can't be up to much.
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