ah this is cool. even handles nondescript formats. this will take the place of having to email myself lots of random files just so I have access from wherever. i can manage them all here.
Don't pretend to be daft. Someone paid for the book, that is all that is required for the author to be paid. Books can be loaned, just not duplicated.
someone also paid for the books i steal from the internet. this is about writers getting paid. and when books are loaned, writers do not get anything.
No, you mostly steal from other thiefs. No, this is about writers being paid for each legal book sold. Like any book, it can be read by many people. When you steal and illegally duplicate a book, a writer has been cheated. In terms of royalties An E-book is just like a book. A child can understand this. You understand this. You are just being contrary.
why does the writer care if it was legal or illegal, he isnt getting paid either way. i read his book for free when i borrow it.
right. it exposes the fallacy in your position. "file sharing" is nothing new. books have been traded (and used books sold, with no money going to the authors) forever. it doesnt mean writers wont write. because like i said, writers are not paid for anything beyond the first purchase. i have books that have been read by lots and lots of people, handed down, and everyone gets a free read. i have books that i dont even know who the original purchaser was. and again, the writers are not getting paid. and according to you, they "deserve" to be paid for giving me the entertainment of their book. lke 20 years ago, garth brooks called for a boycott on used CD stores, because the artists were not making any money off used music sales. and he had a point, if one subscribes to red's logic. but its foolish logic. again, if i think like you do, and i am a writer, i am violently opposed to public libraries. when you understand why public libraries exist, you wil understand my argument. and after you figure that out, ask yourself why wikipedia exists when nobody is paying the writers.
Completely irrelevant and an issue not in question. I've stated and restated it many times and you pretend not to understand. A book can be read hundreds of times, that is not the point. The point is that books and Ebooks can not be duplicated without cheating the author. OK? A book cannot be illegally reprinted without cheating the author. An Ebook cannot be illegally copied without cheating the author. This is why lending software works like it does . . . so that the only copies out there are legal ones. And legal copies can be legally read many times. But it has always been theft to illegally reprint and distribute a book. It works the same way when you illegally duplicate and distribute an Ebook. It put unlicensed copies into circulation, cheating an author. It's just that reprinting and distributing book is something not everyone can do. Making an illegal copy of a file is something any almost anyone can do. You childishly imagine that since you can more easily commit a crime that it should be right and legal. But is is a puerile notion. You are the one swimming upstream here, Ace. My position is the legal one, the one supported by the music industry and musicians, and the one that passes the logic test. No one supports you here except your alter-ego, tirk. You are trying to shift the topic, I don't blame you because you are losing badly. Both books and Ebooks can be legally loaned. No one questions this. Asked and answered already. Stop wasting my time. You simply don't understand the difference between an amateur and a professional, between a hobby and an occupation, or between a blog and a book. You seek to justify your overt theft of intellectual property. Most people have to work for a living, Mr. Trust Fund. Writers, too.
yes, but the writer only gets paid 1 times. thats hundreds of theives taking for free. how much does the writer get paid for these "legal" copies? well if the industry that stands to profit supports it, then it must be right for everyone. try to understand that i dont care what is legal. weed is illegal and yet you smoke it. it isnt about what is legal. its about making the system that works best for society. that argument makes more sense when we talk about music. i actually buy more books than anyone. i have never in my entire life read a stolen book. its just a hassle.
