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From: Ken James (no email)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2007 - 04:12:30 EDT
Don't many of these "free" books take money out of some people's pockets? A
cruiser living by royalties perhaps.?
Reply;
Look at the list I sent and you will see that although they are free,
they are "legal". The exceptions would be if you downloaded from a site
like esnips or bittorrent material that was copyrighted. However even
most stuff on bittorrent and esnips is "legal". Some is not.
But I have seen none of that that that was written by cruisers.
Besides, I think back to the 'old days' before greed became so lobbied,
we used to record Bob Marley on our tape casset player/radios lying off
Jamaica when I was in the USN, we bought more Marley tapes because of
that than otherwise, can say the same for many other artists of that era
and other folks like me.
At the level of availability on the net now, I think in the long run
such availability on the net will do more to popularize an authors works
and so they will sell more rather than it being the case that it will
cost them.
In fact many newer artists agree and make at least some of their
writings (and even recordings) available for free on the net.
Not to say if somebody is selling thousands of copies of illegally
copied stuff for profit it should not be stopped, but.
How many have copied charts? Tch tch!
But if it bothers you, don't download copyrighted material. You will
still find >99% of the stuff I have got, for free.
Or you can buy an ebook from Sony or somebody else, a machine not able
to read 'open format' ebooks but otherwise much the same
technologically, but as I say it only reads THEIR overpriced ebooks that
evaporate in time or if you want to put them on a different reader or PC
or copy them to a disk, and others have even more draconian strictures!
Those are the options.-Ken
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