[bksvol-discuss] Re: email from an author of a book I scanned
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:57:21 -0700 (PDT)
Perhaps, but she is the exception so far. A couple of us, perhaps more? have
written to authors to ask them to donate books to bookshare that were requested
but that we haven't been able to find (or for some other reason I can't
remember at the moment) and have received very positive responses.
Cindy
--- On Tue, 8/26/08, siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: email from an author of a book I scanned
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 12:59 PM
> In the meantime, perhaps it woulld be best, when we write to
> an author, just
> to say how much we enjoyed a certain book, without
> mentioning bookshare.org.
>
> Sue S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:03 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: email from an author of a
> book I scanned
>
>
> Shannon, I'm sorry this woman lashed out at you.
> I'm sure that didn't
> feel very good.
>
> While the author does sound offended to me, I can see how
> she might
> have trouble with this. Most people on this list don't
> know it, but
> there is a brisk trade of illegally scanned books, scanned
> by sighted
> people, going on in various parts of the internet. I'm
> talking about
> 30,000 books available at one time for unlimited download
> including
> prerelease copies of books that haven't even hit store
> shelves yet.
> There are some repositories of illegally scanned books
> numbering in
> the hundreds of thousands, totally dwarfing what we have
> with
> Bookshare or NLS. Unfortunately, Bookshare just sounds like
> another
> swapping service to people who don't know what we do or
> why. Most
> people are ignorant of the copyright law and its protection
> of
> Bookshare. They think that all scanning is illegal, no
> matter what. So
> the crooks make it worse for authors by stealing from them
> and make it
> worse for us when we're trying to read without breaking
> the law.
>
> I hope Pavi can help this author to see that we are not a
> threat to
> her. Indeed, I buy print copies of many books I read
> through Bookshare
> as gifts for friends and family members. So I think I
> profit an author
> rather than taking a sale from her. Maybe she will come to
> see that
> after some thought.
>
>
> --
> Monica Willyard
> Visit my blog at http://www.scannersguild.com
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