does literature get pirated too?

[Zenron]

Well yeah, it is pirated, and you want to know what the funny thing is? It is easier to get e-books illegally than it is to actually buy them at an online store.

 

[Exterminas]

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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.

Oh, I was not referring to piracy with books in general, but to shakespeare. Who is dead for such a long time that his copyright has expired. (Leaving aside the issue that his identity and heirs are indeterminable) Of course people who are merely dead for a day and have living heirs should be able to hold their property.

 

[Danzaivar]

Well a 400 page book is about 50MB in PDF format.

So in a lot of cases it's "spend 40 quid on a reference book and wait a week for it to arrive" or "Pirate the pdf for free and have it with you in the 30 seconds it takes to download".

They're really lucky that a lot of people prefer the feel of a paper book, and e-readers haven't perfected electronic ink yet. Gives them some edge over music and video people.

 

[BlueGlowstick]

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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.

Oh, I was not referring to piracy with books in general, but to shakespeare. Who is dead for such a long time that his copyright has expired. (Leaving aside the issue that his identity and heirs are indeterminable) Of course people who are merely dead for a day and have living heirs should be able to hold their property.

from what I found it can be openly published by any publisher after 70 yrs. (don't know why "How To Train Your Dragon" was in the results) and that's where the money from a book goes. If you aren't a publisher & you don't have permission (like those stolen Japanese apps) & you put it on the web, then it's pirated... eh I need to look into this. -brb-