[bksvol-discuss] Re: email from an author of a book I scanned
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:33:58 -0400
Obviously she hasn't heard of Chafee.
did you pass this on to the Publisher relation person?
Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT
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----- Original Message -----
From: solsticesinger
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:01 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] email from an author of a book I scanned
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?
Who can heal, but one who has healed herself?
Who can know, but one who has asked and sought?
Who can lead, but one who has traveled the way?
--ancient French proverb
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