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Sell Someone Else's Book On Lulu!
Albert Schueller writes "Lulu is a place where authors can self-publish their books. It's a nice response to exorbitant college textbook prices. In an interesting twist, looks like you might be able to get away with selling other people's books on Lulu and reap a tidy profit. The Lulu offering Calculus Twirly Exponentials by Dave Stuart appears to be simply a high quality scan of the much more well-known, and expensive, Calculus: Early Transcendentals 6th ed. by James Stewart. Compare the preview images available for each at Lulu and Amazon respectively."
That sounds legal...
Sounds like a good way to get sued.
1. Publish someone else's book on Lulu
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
4. Get sued!
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Just be glad in the Newton family never patented calculus so that you'd have to pay a license fee to do your homework.
Fuck you, communist. Information wants to be held hostage for money.
The other half gets distributed among thieves claiming credit for your work, even though they didn't do a damn thing. They are parasites... nothing more.
So....it follows the middle management model?
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I'm not really outraged by the person who posted the book on Lulu for profit. I'm outraged by the fact that anyone would pay good money for a pirated textbook...especially when you can get it here. This is unacceptable, people! Learn to Internet!
Are you telling me that people can use technology to infringe copyrights?! Why haven't I heard about this before?! How is this even possible?
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Sad part is, they didn't bring it to your attention it appears. Good old CmdrTaco and the poster (Albert) thought it'd be more effective to not tell you and sensationalize it a bit here in some sort of attempt to turn this into yet another GPL war.
Bringing it to your attention properly would have simply meant they clicked on the link on your website to report it.
I appreciate you taking the high road here and trying to say thanks, but lets call it what it is, this is a bunk story written for ad clicks by a couple of douche bags trying to get more page views from the angsty slashdot teenagers.
If you think so highly of this site, why are you here?
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Stephen King novels older than 2 years should be priced at $0.75
I think we should also take their literary value into account -- make it $0.50 instead. :)
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As a person who's breaking into the book market with my wife's new novel and seeking an eBook option, this is precisely the sort of crap that we're worried about, just all too easy through modern POD portals like Lulu.
As a person who's breaking into the book market with your wife's new novel and seeking an eBook option, this is precisely the sort of crap I'm relying on
The price of a book has nothing to do with scarcity. It's the value of the ideas in the book that create the value.
Ahh, that explains why books with really good ideas are so much more expensive than books with bad ideas.