does literature get pirated too?

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Yes. people scan books, put them onto the internet, and you can read them.

It's one of the weirdest things I've ever seen, but also massuvely helpful if you have a huge reading list for your university course and don't want to waste money on things you'll never touch again.

 

[Kouen]

Yes it does, it was the beginning of the end of the Twilight series. That doesn't make it acceptable though.

Does that mean that the emo vampire fad will disappear and the vampires in every other thing can yet again grow some balls? w0000000t

ya im not a twilight fan if you couldnt tell xD

but on topic: I Don't see books going anywhere... ever. its one of the mediums that have stood the test of time and while i dont read often if i was to grab another Dragonlance book it wouldn't be an E-Book but a nice Paperback

 

[Veylon]

Book used to get pirated. As in, publishers would just publish whatever book happened to be popular and pocket the money without a cent going to the author. This happened to Dickens (he made squat off of A Christmas Carol) and, to a lesser extent, Tolkien. Literature piracy is the reason that copyright laws exist today.

And yes, there are pdf scans you can download for probably any given book. I have a couple for books I already own, but need to search for things in. It's not often heard of, or given much thought as books are already available for free in libraries, they don't cost so much as games, and people who read them for pleasure generally like having an actual physical thing to read. We'll see what happens once things like the Nook take off.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Yes. Literature gets pirated. Especially audio books, but also just as text.

Things making it not affect that much on book sales: A physical book is much more pleasant to use than reading vast amounts of text on a screen. You can carry a book with you and don't need anything else to enjoy it.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

If it isn't, I imagine it soon will be.

 

[Hashime]

Textbooks are pirated like it's going out of style. There's big money in textbooks, and so there's a lot of people trying to steal them.

And since stealing physical copies from other classmates makes people feel bad, they just steal from the publisher.


But really, who's the REAL thief? amirite?

($150 for a 70 page book? It'd better come with a hooker.)

I refuse to sell my textbooks back to the store. I refuse to let them give me a few bucks for a book that i paid well upwards of $60 on, then turn around and re sell them for another $60. Small vengeance i know.

that, and i am a history grad student. so by now i have a pretty impressive library of history books on a wide range of topics, which is nice and has come in handy more times than i can count.

Same, plus the $270 I paid for "General Chemistry 10" will not go to waste, it is a good reference text. One of my profs was nice enough to scan the questions from the textbook for us so I did not have to buy 2 books.

 

[teebeeohh]

it does
a lot
but because the the raltion of books sold to books pirated is not as high as with movies or games it's not as well known. or the publishers of the books are just old fools who think their medium is immune to piracy

 

[Hashime]

I'd say that the ammount of grapic novels, novels, and magazines in PDF fromat on my Hard Disk justifies that amswer : yes It certainly does.

I would revise that if I were you, you mean the amount of PDF files your buddy has on his HDD that he has shown you, after which you scolded him for piracy.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Hmm, I wonder, is it bad that I have some audio books? I've bought the original books in hardback, and my local library has them on cd for free loan, but it was just easier to download them to put them on my player than rip 10 or 12 cds.

On the main topic however, I'd say it's the simple tactile feel of owning a book that is something most people just can't get past, including me, to the point where I'll always buy a hardback if I can get it, despite it being at least an extra £5 for exactly the same product.

There's something sooo pleasing about a bookshelf with a row all by the same author.

 

[BlueGlowstick]

Google Shakespeare or Edgar Allan Poe & tell me what you see.

A boat load of pirated stuff. it's how I was able to read Macbeth in my senior year without bringing home a 25-lb. book. as well as use ppl's notes...

so yep. :/

 

[Luftwaffles]

Id rather read physical books. But sometimes when i borrow one from the library i photocopy some pages. Specially from the fishing ones. Good info to keep.

 

[WolfThomas]

Comic books get scanned and uploaded. It's disappointing because of the state of the comicbook market these days, but at the same time it allows huge libraries of issues to be stored on a tiny laptop and for much older issues, possibly rare or out of print, to be read. There's no fighting it and the problem is that legitimate online alternatives are inferior in both selection choice and the programs for reading them.

Oh yeah and just throwing it out there with literature that's public domain damned if I'm paying for it.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

Yes, I've seen E-books and manga scans.

 

[KushinLos]

Yes

 

[Exterminas]

Google Shakespeare or Edgar Allan Poe & tell me what you see.

A boat load of pirated stuff. it's how I was able to read Macbeth in my senior year without bringing home a 25-lb. book. as well as use ppl's notes...

so yep. :/

That's not piracy. These guys are dead for such a long time that their property has become community property.

 

[Continuity]

but books are rarely read on screens.

Says you, I read almost exclusively on screen, even when I happen to have a physical copy of a book I usually prefer to read it on a screen, typically my iPhone these days but before that I had other smart phones and pda's.

 

[hooksashands]

It's kind of funny when you imagine the guy who pirates. What is he, a scribe? Does he just sit there and copy a book per day?

Then the people who scan an entire novel and put it in Adobe.

 

[logiman]

Yes it does..but there is a good side to it. For e.g.: Many books that I want to read, you can`t find in Romania (where I live) and it would cost me a fortune to bring to my dorstep by post. I downloaded many pdf books like METRO 2033.

I think books are ok to pirate to some extent, because their main use it to educate people and thus, knowledge is power. Power to the smart people!

 

[Fetzenfisch]

I guess they are just not making such a fuss about it 1) because you dont invest 200million in a book in production 2) a pirated book is about 3mb big so they cant stop the spread. 3) it has been done since the invention of pen and paper. I doubt my teachers and profs have ever asked the author everytime they copied stuff out of books , or sometimes whole books. There are photocopymachines in about every library inviting you to copy as much as you want.
The internet on the other hand, even if it spreads billions of ebooks for free, (which are nearly never read, but its good to know that you have them) increased book sales by a fair amount, i am looking at you amazon.
When i hear of a good book, or am reminded of its existence, chances are way better that i just log on amazon and order it , than going to the city to buy it (if its available atm) or to remember to do so a few days later.
I bought 8 books this month online, all because of spontaneously found recommendations or reviews or well done adverts. If i go to browse in my favourite bookstores, they might order me everything in 24hours, but that doesnt make me aware of a books existence, so without the internet, id have much more money left every month

 

[BlueGlowstick]

Google Shakespeare or Edgar Allan Poe & tell me what you see.

A boat load of pirated stuff. it's how I was able to read Macbeth in my senior year without bringing home a 25-lb. book. as well as use ppl's notes...

so yep. :/

That's not piracy. These guys are dead for such a long time that their property has become community property.

Stephenie Meyer (of course that would be the article I pulled up...) had to cancel a book release because of a pirated copy. ain't just dead authors.

there's a warning in the front of books that basically says (and I'm just paraphrasing): "If you buy the book with no cover, then it's stolen property." And piracy is stealing.

I searched the piratebay.org & they had pirated e-books & audio books.