The Lost Symbol falls into the hands of pirates - Page 4

Dr. Drib · 09-19-2009, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

I liked it so much, I now use part of it as my signature

Love it! It's good to meet someone with a sense of humor for the ridiculous!

Don

Dave_S · 09-19-2009, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by ahi

No, it was a pompous show of how clever I am................................................ ..................................

The only person worth impressing is yourself.
Your opinion on the validity of criticism is noted, so I give up.

Dr. Drib · 09-19-2009, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by neilmarr

***with ghost-pale skin and thinning white hair. His irises were pink with dark red pupils***

Some pretty detailed 'silhouette', eh. Dr Drib?

Don

Moejoe · 09-19-2009, 03:21 PM

Brown has stated that he has ideas for about 12 future books featuring Robert Langdon. source: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1176351_1,00.html

Dear God! True sailing is dead!

Crowl · 09-19-2009, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

Brown has stated that he has ideas for about 12 future books featuring Robert Langdon. source: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1176351_1,00.html

Dear God! True sailing is dead!

Here's hoping to see the next one sometime in 2015 then.

zerospinboson · 09-19-2009, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Crowl

Here's hoping to see the next one sometime in 2015 then.

He says something about 'already being ready to start writing the next one'

kacir · 09-19-2009, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by neilmarr

***with ghost-pale skin and thinning white hair. His irises were pink with dark red pupils***

Some pretty detailed 'silhouette', eh. Dr Drib?

kacir · 09-19-2009, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

Brown has stated that he has ideas for about 12 future books featuring Robert Langdon. source: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1176351_1,00.html

Dear God! True sailing is dead!

That was a very interesting article.

fugazied · 09-19-2009, 07:38 PM

I'm not sure it was worth the Guardian's time considering most ebooks make their ways into the hands of pirates?

The real problem is that publisher see this as a reason to create more restrictive draconian DRM when in fact it should make them want to be more like some aspects of iTunes. Specifically providing an easy way for people to buy ebooks at a reasonable price like iTunes does for music/tv/movies. When people can easily get media at a reasonable price and reasonable DRM, they just buy it.

Crowl · 09-20-2009, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by fugazied

The real problem is that publisher see this as a reason to create more restrictive draconian DRM when in fact it should make them want to be more like some aspects of iTunes. Specifically providing an easy way for people to buy ebooks at a reasonable price like iTunes does for music/tv/movies. When people can easily get media at a reasonable price and reasonable DRM, they just buy it.

Now obviously they won't eliminate piracy completely, its going to still be there, they should just try to do all they can to encourage people to go for the legal options, treat their customers with a bit of respect rather than assuming they are all potential thieves.

The other thing publishers should avoid, but probably won't, is this tendency to claim every illegal download is a lost sale, its a stupid argument as there's no real way to know how many would buy it for sure.

neilmarr · 09-21-2009, 04:10 AM

Piracy is largely about new mega-sellers -- the Harry Potters and the Dan Browns. Books still in copyright but without huge illegal sales potential tend to be pirated small scale if at all and it's no real skin off anyone's nose (at least not until portable readers have a firmer toe-hold). I think many of my colleagues in the indudstry are a tad paranoid about ebook piracy. Let's face it, any self-respecting pirate can just as easily scan the treebook and put it out in rogue ebook or paperback form. N

SpiderMatt · 09-21-2009, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Shaggy

I'm surprised it took that long.

Nope, didn't take long at all. This is a comment I posted on Teleread:

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The Lost Symbol was actually pirated the DAY OF. I saw it available within a couple hours of its release. It seemed to me that someone downloaded it, stripped the DRM, and converted it to different formats. It appears to have been downloaded as a LIT and converted to HTML and ePub. I downloaded the ePub and for whatever reason the format of the book looked a little messy. I looked inside the ePub archive and saw that it was converted with Calibre (how happy it must make Kovid to know his software is being used for piracy). So instead of just using LITConverter, someone must have used Calibre to convert to ePub. Wasn’t the best result. After just checking again, I see that the commercial ePub has been cracked and offered up for free.

Just thought that info might be interesting for some. And if you’re thinking about posting something accusatory along the lines of “OMG PIRATE!” I will let you know that I have deleted the book. I was only interested in how fast the book was pirated and if the copy was the real deal (the Harry Potter books dealt with a lot of fakes popping up around the internet before their releases). Besides, I really hate Dan Brown.

Superlucky · 09-21-2009, 06:09 AM

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Originally Posted by SpiderMatt

Nope, didn't take long at all. This is a comment I posted on Teleread:

OMG! PIRATE!

SpiderMatt · 09-21-2009, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Superlucky

OMG! PIRATE!

Format C: · 09-22-2009, 09:16 AM

The Italian version of the last Harry Potter made a good record.
The book was in the bookstores at 00:00, and I found at quarter past midnight a pdf with the first five chapters (scanned and proofreaded: there was no ebook source to de-DRM).
The next part was up about an hour later.

The funny thing is that there were lots of teenagers queueing (or better, having the strange clot-like formation Italians call "queue") in front of the bookstores since the morning to wait for the special nightly opening, waiting to grab a copy of the book.
At 10:00 in the morning the book was in the local supermarkets at 20% off...

But most of those early buyers din't read it at all, they just waited for the movie.

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09-19-2009, 03:21 PM	#49
Moejoe Banned Posts: 5,100 Karma: 72193 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South of the Border Device: Coffin	Brown has stated that he has ideas for about 12 future books featuring Robert Langdon. source: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1176351_1,00.html Dear God! True sailing is dead!

09-19-2009, 07:38 PM	#54
fugazied Wizard Posts: 1,305 Karma: 1958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: iPod Touch	I'm not sure it was worth the Guardian's time considering most ebooks make their ways into the hands of pirates? The real problem is that publisher see this as a reason to create more restrictive draconian DRM when in fact it should make them want to be more like some aspects of iTunes. Specifically providing an easy way for people to buy ebooks at a reasonable price like iTunes does for music/tv/movies. When people can easily get media at a reasonable price and reasonable DRM, they just buy it.

09-21-2009, 04:10 AM	#56
neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 7,215 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	Piracy is largely about new mega-sellers -- the Harry Potters and the Dan Browns. Books still in copyright but without huge illegal sales potential tend to be pirated small scale if at all and it's no real skin off anyone's nose (at least not until portable readers have a firmer toe-hold). I think many of my colleagues in the indudstry are a tad paranoid about ebook piracy. Let's face it, any self-respecting pirate can just as easily scan the treebook and put it out in rogue ebook or paperback form. N

09-22-2009, 09:16 AM	#60
Format C: Guru Posts: 753 Karma: 1496807 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: The Third World Device: iLiad + PRS-505 + Kindle 3	The Italian version of the last Harry Potter made a good record. The book was in the bookstores at 00:00, and I found at quarter past midnight a pdf with the first five chapters (scanned and proofreaded: there was no ebook source to de-DRM). The next part was up about an hour later. The funny thing is that there were lots of teenagers queueing (or better, having the strange clot-like formation Italians call "queue") in front of the bookstores since the morning to wait for the special nightly opening, waiting to grab a copy of the book. At 10:00 in the morning the book was in the local supermarkets at 20% off... But most of those early buyers din't read it at all, they just waited for the movie.

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