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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Here's my take:
As far as I know, she didn't ever state that she was going to make the work available online in perpetuity. She took donations to write a novel that would be posted online, and did just that (as I remember there's more to the story, but it's not mine to tell). Then, when she signed a contract for the novel, she took it down.
Everyone who donated toward the book had a chance to read it in its entirety.
The only thing that bothers me is the very short notice, but that may not have been her decision.
She did what she said she would.
Expecting it to be up forever, and that the donation model would forever disallow a professional writer from selling her work and putting it in bookstores and thus in front of the majority of readers doesn't sound reasonable.
If she had finished the book and immediately pulled it down, I would have had an issue with it, but not this.
It almost sounds like people are complaining that their "right" to a free ebook is more important than her need to pay rent (mortgage or what have you).
I don't agree with that.
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You put something on-line, there is nothing but perpetuity as long as someone wants what you put there. This book will turn up all over the sharing networks soon enough. You don't piss off a community just for some money. That's not the right netiquette.
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