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No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy Is Not a Given
adamengst writes "David Pogue recently wrote a widely read blog post in which he explains that piracy is the reason he doesn't make his books available in PDF format. But in this article, TidBITS publisher Adam Engst disagrees strongly with Pogue's opinion, using sales numbers from the Take Control series of ebooks (150,000+ copies sold since 2004 with virtually no copying) as proof that making electronic versions not only doesn't necessarily lead to piracy, it may be the best way of preventing illicit sharing."
...is making your eBook so crappy no one wants to read it.
Well David, you are passing up sales while preventing absolutely nothing.
Learn to live with it, the pirates always win.
"due to the way his technology sensibilities have been honed by years of being a Mac user. "
:-P
stopped reading right there
10$ says someone somewhere is thinking "haha i just pwnd you on slashdot Dave!"
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I expect it beats David Pogue's ebooks anyway!
Awful UID - but I have been here ages...
That explains the weight problems in the States! DAILY exercise people, daily!
You, sir, must be new to this internet thingy.
Yeah thats why I buy all my books printed on baby seal leather with ink made from ground endangered butterfly wings.
Hell, I'm a Microsoft MVP Award Winner for many years in a row and even I'm not daft enough to understand that free, open source, and closed source have their places on the planet. It is sad when there are zealots on either side. So many of the people who know nothing about open source software (to which I also contribute) are as hell bent on being right as those on the opposing side of the fence. I guess the difference between me and, well, most is that I freely admit my sentiments openly and honestly and back them up with factual information.
Yet, on the other side of this we see people who do stupid crap... They simply can't (or won't) understand that open source means that you are free to do as you wish with it up to, and including, not using it.
On the other side you have those people who insist that everything must be open source and if it isn't then there's something evil going on with it. There are too many people making judgments based on little evidence.
To the first folks I say, come on over to my house and you can chill on my lawn, party, spend the weekend, and all of that.
To the latter I say, just because I let you in my home to have all the free stuff you want (assuming you don't steal it from me) but if I say you can't go into my bedroom then you must accept that it is off limits.
Where am I going with this? Well, you have someone who obviously has an agenda. He obviously thinks that one can't be paid from their "free" work. The reality is, just with me, that I get paid quite often to work on free, open source, software to improve it or to integrate it with their current setup. He, probably, doesn't and he, probably, isn't smart enough to realize that there is a world beyond proprietary. Take what you can from him, as you seem to be doing, but what you do take from him I would automatically consider suspect given his prior inability to comprehend simplistic realities.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
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