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| dkersten:
--- Quote from: pbj on October 02, 2015, 12:13:25 pm ---The author gave it away for free on his website. The horse is out of the barn. He's made plenty of money on the subsequent sales and selling of the movie rights. --- End quote --- He gave it away for free for a limited time to promote sales and build readership. Doesn't mean anyone has the right to give it away for all eternity. Of course, we are all pirates here with Roms, so it's a bit hypocritical to argue the point. As someone who downloaded my fair share of pirated content in my younger years, my perspective changed when suddenly I was the owner of the copyrighted material. Karma's a ---smurfette---. |
| knave:
I have gravitated to ebooks more and more over the years. Every once and a while I want to hold a real book. I can check out either from my local library. in fact the selection of ebooks has gone from awful to great in the last year or so. And I can't loose it or turn it back in late. |
| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: knave on October 02, 2015, 01:49:20 pm ---I have gravitated to ebooks more and more over the years. Every once and a while I want to hold a real book. I can check out either from my local library. in fact the selection of ebooks has gone from awful to great in the last year or so. And I can't loose it or turn it back in late. --- End quote --- That's a good point, Knave. As the selection of ebooks has increased and gotten better, it makes it an attractive alternative. |
| Slippyblade:
My wife works for the city library and is her branch's e-book "ambassador". She's the poor monkey who gets to teach the luddites how to work the system, DL the ebooks, how the DRM works, etc. It's gotten a LOT better in the past couple years. When they first started doing e-books, it was a total nightmare. |
| wp34:
--- Quote from: Slippyblade on October 02, 2015, 05:39:54 pm ---My wife works for the city library and is her branch's e-book "ambassador". She's the poor monkey who gets to teach the luddites how to work the system, DL the ebooks, how the DRM works, etc. It's gotten a LOT better in the past couple years. When they first started doing e-books, it was a total nightmare. --- End quote --- Wow. That must really be fun at times. |
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