it must be monday. people are annoying me.

[lagilman]

Yes. This.

Yes I remember what it's like to be poor and not to be able to afford the books you want. I remember days when I would literally skip meals in order to save up the cash to buy a new book, and making do with the limited selection at the library. But back then it never occurred to me to start stealing books to feed my habit, and it wouldn't occur to me now.

As I've said before and I will say again -- if publishers can't sell an author's books and make a profit, they will drop that author. You aren't supporting your favorite by pirating copies -- you're destroying them.

(and no, we're not going to do it fortheluv. Do you work every day at your job fortheluv? Or do you do it to buy food and pay rent and medical insurance? How about your favorite actor? Should they do it fortheluv? Or your favorite band? How about your doctor? Your teachers?)


I'm going to go look at some pictures of puppies and kittens, now.

Comments

[wedschilde.livejournal.com]

okay... i admit to sharing recipes books. and i will share music files if someone's interested in seeing if a band is something they like. books, i loan.

oh, and i'll make a mixed playlist CD and share that.

i admit to these things. :::nods::: my friends are pretty good about buying stuff they like if it's been shared. and i take credit for addicting them to an author, band or food stuffs.

but posting ebooks? posting torrents? no... that's... icky wrong.

[wedschilde.livejournal.com]

here... have a picture of a puppy.



his name is dickens. he will gladly stick his tongue up your nose should you let him.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

AWWW DICKENS!

[wedschilde.livejournal.com]

he is very happy of late. he gets to bounce around in his summer haircut. he'll be getting another trim soon. i'll post pictures.

he's become an attention whore. no lap he's met he doesn't like.

[lagilman]

Sharing your bought-copy with someone else is cool. Enticing someone with tidbits is good. That's called Enabling. Restaurants do it with food samples. Musicians do it with free downloads of individual songs. Authors do it with sample chapters.

Lifting the entire work and broadcasting it for free to anyone/everyone who wants to stop by and download? Not cool. Really not cool. And also illegal, although some people seem to want to rewrite reality about that.

[wedschilde.livejournal.com]

Oh i will enable but I SO will not torrent or spam out stuff. That's just wrong. It is. Can't get behind it at all. :::nods:::

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

I'll be right over here... looking at adorable kittens (http://www.theittybittykittycommittee.com/) and loving on my birth day pupper.

[ilvack.livejournal.com]

Thank you. You have been able to say exactly what's been on my mind for ages now. Back in my younger days, when Napster and Netscape were hip, I was guilty of downloading more music than I ever thought possible. Movies and TV shows were a top second, with books being a distant third.

It took a long time for me to realize what I was doing to my favorite artists and television shows. I keep wondering "Would Carnivale still be around if I had ponied up the extra money a month to watch it on the TV?

To be honest, it's never been something that's kept me up late at night, but it's something that I'm happy to have grown out of. It's also a problem that I've become increasingly interested in solving, since I'm planning on one day getting my work out there and depending on my meager talents to put food in my stomach (I'm still debating on getting that whole "Table" thing).