I can almost understand the temptation to make available a book which is long out of print and being held hostage by a publisher with other priorities. I have to squint my brain up in painful ways to do it, but I can get a glimmer going.
But I certainly cannot understand the attraction of pirating a book which is currently easily available for a quite nominal price, which, when paid, goes to not only keeping the publisher in business to oversee the publication of it and many other tasty books, but to keep the authors of said books happy so they will write more of the words I love to read. The only motivation I can conceive of is a desire to wreck the entire industry; a short-sighted hooliganism which glories in destruction for its own sake. Or perhaps mere childish greed for free stuff. Neither is very pretty.
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Date: 2012-11-15 05:40 pm (UTC)But I certainly cannot understand the attraction of pirating a book which is currently easily available for a quite nominal price, which, when paid, goes to not only keeping the publisher in business to oversee the publication of it and many other tasty books, but to keep the authors of said books happy so they will write more of the words I love to read. The only motivation I can conceive of is a desire to wreck the entire industry; a short-sighted hooliganism which glories in destruction for its own sake. Or perhaps mere childish greed for free stuff. Neither is very pretty.