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Are We About To Enter The Age of Book Piracy?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the ebooks-are-for-me-books dept.

theodp writes "The speed with which the 4MB e-mail hoax purporting to be the new cookbook from the Naked Chef streaked across the Internet suggests to Slate that a new, disquieting era for the publishing world may be in sight. Indeed, the latest Harry Potter tale made the rounds on the Web just hours after the book went on sale, its 870 pages apparently scanned in and distributed by rabid fans. The old argument that no one likes reading on a computer has pretty much eroded. Just because publishing people can't conceive of book piracy doesn't mean it can't happen."

6 of 494 comments (clear)

  1. Solution. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Print all the books in X11 fonts. Those font suck so bad that my OCR program segfaulted when trying to read in a chapter.

  2. BIG difference... by 403Forbidden · · Score: 2, Funny

    Books don't ALL cost 20 bucks (in fact much much less normally) and there isn't just one page that is good.

  3. Re:It's copyright infringement by isorox · · Score: 5, Funny

    Freely adapted from the parent post

    YOU PIRATE!!!

  4. Re:It's copyright infringement by Blue+Stone · · Score: 2, Funny
    "...the implication being that since they argree with the abuse of copyright in the first place, they'll try to make copyright infringement sound as harful as possible."

    You see the effect all this piracy has had on you, you're even beginning to talk like like a salty brigand, now.

    Harrrful, it be, harrr, Jim lad. Harrrr.

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  5. Re:Now it's getting pointless by Idarubicin · · Score: 2, Funny
    "$40?!? My cheapest textbook is twice that amount!"

    You bastard!

    I bought a solid state physics textbook back in my undergrad days--it cost more than an equivalent weight of silver bullion. I haven't weighed any of my other textbooks, but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't the only one worth its weight in silver....

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  6. 30 minutes for a comic!!?!! by MickLinux · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think that somebody has a problem, if it takes them 30 minutes to read a comic.

    I finish the Sunday Non Sequitor in just under 18 minutes. If it takes someone thirty minutes, they need to switch to an easier one. Maybe Ziggy would be a better start. That one only takes me 5.

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