One person told me all of this theft was a compliment: I should enjoy the fact that my book was selected to be a part of the pirated file, Many of my friends from universities tend to take a vaguely Marxist approach to the piracy, perhapsīecause the bursar’s office shields them from the trauma of commerce. I recently discussed the piracy problem on my blog and got few responses. Sales of my book when these pirated versions appeared. While authors like Cory Doctorow like to argue that the author’s real enemy is obscurity, there was no real uptick in the I’m not going to write more books if the revenues will be wiped out by pirates. According to the company, the category sold 8 percent fewer titles The computer book market was the only segment to lose sales. O’Reilly Publishers, one of the top technical presses, reported that in 2008, The kind of book I write, thick with equations that play to computer lovers, is also the first to be pirated. While one was briefly in Amazon’s list of top 100 sellers, most have been So what am I supposed to do? I’ve written more than a dozen books, although some, to be fair, were just second and third editions. To the nicely bound copies printed with jet-black ink on acid-free stock. Digital copies are no longer poor cousins New gadgets with high-resolution screens, like the Amazon Kindle and various smartphones. That is rapidly changing.Īn article in Tuesday’s Times by Motoko Rich suggests that more and more people are discovering how easy it is to read e-books The piracy of music and movies has been a challenge for the industry for many years now, but the book business seemed to avoid the problem. Strings do a better job and find the textbook’s page at. To add insult to injury, the top 10 doesn’t include any page that actually sells my book, although they do point to several pages at Amazon and other sites that sell newer books by other authors.
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