What is your personal e-reading philosophy? Buy(from where?)or Borrow?

[spindlegirl]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I'll make this short:

I buy ebooks wherever I want to buy ebooks - if it is something I want to read, of course..

I could care less where it comes from.

You said it more succinctly than I did haha.

[spindlegirl]

Originally Posted by Flaneurette

It seems there is much screeching online about how kindle books are a lease and not true ownership but I’ve known this forever? It is the price to pay for convenience of digital goods I guess and won’t likely change anytime soon. I don’t agree that piracy is justified because people didn’t understand the terms of service for all these platforms.

I used to be one of those screechers. I don't agree with downloading a car, but I used to be greatly offended with the terms of service. I've now decided to pick my battles, and just roll with it when I use my Kindle.

Edit: It's a cheeky reference to the Preamble I used to see against pirating movies. "You wouldn't steal a car..."

[Gormagon]

Originally Posted by hildea

If your book has an important character who is a rocket scientist, you might want a real rocket scientist to take a look, to help identify things which are embarrassingly wrong or actively harmful.

That doesn't follow the definition of a sensitivity reader I linked. What you seems to mean is checking the facts. Feelings (like feeling offended) aren't facts, they are just subjective feelings.

Originally Posted by hildea

(And if you don't think this kind of consultancy is useful, take a brief look at some Men writing women-list, as very obvious examples of things that can go laughably wrong when authors don't know where their knowledge ends and their ignorance begins )

I only see that there are people out there that design websites that really show nothing in a modern browser with JavaScript and cookies disabled, see attached screenshot. They really should have consult someone who know something about webdesign.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by hildea

(And if you don't think this kind of consultancy is useful, take a brief look at some Men writing women-list, as very obvious examples of things that can go laughably wrong when authors don't know where their knowledge ends and their ignorance begins )

Bwahaha. While lots of those examples were pretty yucky, I almost fell off the sofa laughing at some of the comments.

[salamanderjuice]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Pragmatism says buying books and supporting authors is simple self-interest. After all, if we all pirated books, who would be writing our next read?

People wrote and created stories for thousands of years before copyright, if it vanished overnight they'd continue to write and create stories. Already there are thousands and thousands of free novels and stories all over the web.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by salamanderjuice

People wrote and created stories for thousands of years before copyright, if it vanished overnight they'd continue to write and create stories. Already there are thousands and thousands of free novels and stories all over the web.

Most of those creating those stories were supported by the wealthy. Nowadays, most of them seem to be supported by a day job, spouse, etc.

As for copyright, that has little to do with being willing to pay the author for what they produce. Very few of the authors I've met are writing just for the money with many ranking the egoboo higher but money does help convince them to continue writing.