oh, joy.

[lagilman]

Well, someone has already shown up asking for a pirated copy of "Tales of the Cosa Nostradamus" - "and they don't care what format it's in."

Guys? I'm charging, what, $4.99 for the collection? Someone really can't manage to scrape together half of a movie ticket to buy it? (more to the point, someone doesn't want to scrape together $5 to pay for it.)

And they can't even claim they're "sticking it to the publisher" here, because this is self-published, via BookViewCafe and Smashwords. No, this is just someone who feels Entitled to whatever they want, for free, and never mind that it was someone's physical and mental labor they're taking without any kind of compensation.

Sometimes, I hate people.

News flash: When you do this? You're not showing how much you like someone's work. You're showing how little you respect/value it, and them.

"Tales" was an experiment for me. if I can't even cover the hour-costs of putting it together, because of piracy? Then the experiment failed, and I won't be doing it again.

Hey, less stress and frustration and work for me. Fewer stories for you, tho.




Meanwhile, it took me about 24 hours to eat a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream. I'm not sure if that's good, or bad... [I only let myself have ice cram when it's a) over 90 degrees or b) I'm sick, so I don't really have a decent scale for this sort of thing, but I feel like I should have taken 2 days, really...]

Comments

[blazedglory.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think 24 hours indicates self-restraint.

[vampry.livejournal.com]

Just a point: There are those of us who have had to economize big time. One of the things I have cut out almost entirely is buying books. That hurts...really badly. I borrow or ask for gift cards at gift giving times or whatever. So $4.99 is something I can spend on lunch or on cat food. I would never, however, pirate a book. That is just wrong. However much I would like to read it.

[lagilman]

Just a point: There are those of us who have had to economize big time.

Many of us have. As you say, we decide what we can't afford, and do without (or borrow from the library, share costs with friends, etc). I've made the offer before, on-line in a public forum, that anyone who wants any of my books and can't afford them/get them from the library is more than welcome to contact me directly rather than going to pirates.

Not a single person took me up on the offer, then or now.

[blitheringpooks.livejournal.com]

Fuckers.

[skidspoppe.livejournal.com]

As soon as I get an e-reader, I'm gonna go buy a download!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That's pretty low behaviour. I do not get people like that at all.