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Author Encourages Users to Pirate His Book
mariushm writes "Peter Cooper, the author of Beginning Ruby, breaks down how he gets paid for the book, including the advance and royalties, giving a nice clean explanation of how authors get paid for their books. He also describes the negotiations over the second edition of the book, in which he begged his publisher, Apress, to offer the ebook version for free, believing (strongly) that it would promote sales of the paper book. He even notes that the original version's ebook barely had noteworthy sales, so it seemed reasonable to offer up the ebook for free to drive more attention. No dice. Even though Apress has done that with other similar titles, it wouldn't agree. As he retains the copyright for the actual text, he encourages people to buy the book and create an online version of it without covers, contents table and indexes, promising not to enforce his copyright over the new work."
I'm stealing your bits and bytes, and I just don't give a damn what you or anyone else thinks about it. If you go hungry because I've stolen a few bits, tough shit, dude. Go ahead, weigh your computer, and see how much it's weight has been reduced. I STOLE WHAT'S MISSING!!! And, you know what? I FEEL GOOD, LIKE I KNEW THAT I WOULD! Now, you'll miss a meal, and so will all of your loved ones.
When I figure out how to do it, I'm gonna steal the electrons from your machine too. There's no point in me paying for electricity, when I can get you to pay for it!
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
You sir, are a dick head.
An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"
You might want to do some research on "Hollywood accounting". In particular it illustrates the difference between revenue and profit.
P.S. Which retard modded this up?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."