“Pirate my eBook” says author

Posted on October 18, 2009 by Shaun

rubyAn author has stated that he would like readers to pirate his eBook because it seems that his publisher has more say over how his work can be priced than he does. Here’s the main extract from techdirt- “My reaction to seeing other Apress books getting the free, electronic version treatment is: I’m good with you pirating my book! Now, of course, I can’t actively participate in pirating my book but, heck, it’s around on plenty of “free e-book” sites and on RapidShare. There are even links on Twitter to torrents like this. I am happy for you to pirate my book, but I’m NOT A LAWYER, and I can’t guarantee what Apress would do about it – so you’d be doing it off your own back! So, uhm, don’t pirate it? ;-) ”

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2 Responses to “Pirate my eBook” says author

  1. Joel says:
    October 19, 2009 at 3:04 am

    bit like Tent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails when he found out how much Universal charged for ‘Year Zero’ in Australia.

    In the concert – “as a reward for being a ‘true fan’ you get ripped off” .. “the climate grows more and more desperate for record labels, their answer to their mostly self-inflicted wounds seems to be to screw the consumer over even more.” .. “steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin’.”

    (Edited by Peter to correct reference to Universal)

  2. Joel says:
    October 19, 2009 at 3:04 am

    ^^ Sorry Universal not WB