Shannon, I'm sorry this woman lashed out at you. I'm sure that didn't
feel very good.
While the author does sound offended to me, I can see how she might
have trouble with this. Most people on this list don't know it, but
there is a brisk trade of illegally scanned books, scanned by sighted
people, going on in various parts of the internet. I'm talking about
30,000 books available at one time for unlimited download including
prerelease copies of books that haven't even hit store shelves yet.
There are some repositories of illegally scanned books numbering in
the hundreds of thousands, totally dwarfing what we have with
Bookshare or NLS. Unfortunately, Bookshare just sounds like another
swapping service to people who don't know what we do or why. Most
people are ignorant of the copyright law and its protection of
Bookshare. They think that all scanning is illegal, no matter what. So
the crooks make it worse for authors by stealing from them and make it
worse for us when we're trying to read without breaking the law.
I hope Pavi can help this author to see that we are not a threat to
her. Indeed, I buy print copies of many books I read through Bookshare
as gifts for friends and family members. So I think I profit an author
rather than taking a sale from her. Maybe she will come to see that
after some thought.
--
Monica Willyard
Visit my blog at http://www.scannersguild.com
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