Hi,
I would give her the benefit of the doubt. I am a musician. I dislike it
when people pirate music. Let's see how this turns out.
Thanks.
Jim
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that is terrible.
How disappointing that she is so ignorant and hostile toward blind and
disabled being able to read in alternant formats.
How nasty.
Laura An
At 01:01 PM 8/26/2008, you wrote:
Hi, all.
I received this message from Katharine Webber, the author of
Triangle, which I recently submitted to the collection. She is
apparently displeased that her book is in the collection.
I tried to explain that bookshare is not illegal. Here is what she
says:
Scanning pages of a book that is copyright and
therefore protected intellectual property, and then
ndistributing those pages to other people through a
website, is a violation of the copyright law. Very
specifically, you are stealing income from me, the
author of TRIANGLE and other novels.
What you are doing is theft. Do you mind that? Would
you steal a meal in a restaurant, would you steal
services from your plumber? If you had no idea it was
illegal, now you know. Surely you do know this?
BOOKSHARE IS ILLEGAL THEFT OF PROPERTY. Do you want to
keep doing it and to wait to be prosecuted?
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