That and a lot of the books that are recent publications I purchase to add to Bookshare.
I do hope Bookshare can clear this up with her. Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT And Guinevere: Golden Lady Guide Dog guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs for the Blind Alumni Association www.guidedogs.comThough force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. -Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:03 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: email from an author of a book I scanned
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 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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