I guess not many of you will know that books are actually pirated online too. Many books such as Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter are available to be downloaded in PDF format FOR FREE! Harry Potter's books are selling like RM35-RM60 per book for non hard cover versions and they all allowing users to download it for free. Can you imagine how much the writer would have lost from there? It's not easy to write a book and it can take up to 1-2years to complete a book.
It is not hard to create a copy of pirate book. According to Richard Loeffler in his article of Book Piracy on the Web,
"All you need is a copy of the book you want to "give away" and a scanner with optical character recognition software and the patience to scan the book, clean it up and post to a web site. It is not difficult to do. In fact this is what the volunteers at Project Gutenberg do.." more
[Online], Retrieved on 8th March, 2009
URL: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/e-books/78353/1
I remembered 3 years ago, a friend of mine knew that I read Harry Potter and she passed me a link that contains all of the Harry Potter series in it. That time the latest book is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It has just been released not long and it is already available for download online. I was really shocked but I insisted on buying the book because I trying to make a collection out of it. To those of you who are keen readers, have you encountered any case like mine before? Please share with me by posting it at the comments section thanks ^^
It is not hard to create a copy of pirate book. According to Richard Loeffler in his article of Book Piracy on the Web,
"All you need is a copy of the book you want to "give away" and a scanner with optical character recognition software and the patience to scan the book, clean it up and post to a web site. It is not difficult to do. In fact this is what the volunteers at Project Gutenberg do.." more
[Online], Retrieved on 8th March, 2009
URL: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/e-books/78353/1
I remembered 3 years ago, a friend of mine knew that I read Harry Potter and she passed me a link that contains all of the Harry Potter series in it. That time the latest book is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It has just been released not long and it is already available for download online. I was really shocked but I insisted on buying the book because I trying to make a collection out of it. To those of you who are keen readers, have you encountered any case like mine before? Please share with me by posting it at the comments section thanks ^^
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I think reading books through online is not right and fair towards the author. It takes a lot of hard work and perseverance to write a book. As consumers, we should respect their talents and rights. Maybe, they can share a portion of the book contents through online to give the readers a feel before purchasing it.
ReplyDeleteWell, I like to read and collect comic. Then I also found that we can read the comic online and download it for free as well.
ReplyDeletepurchase a book is not really expensive, and can keep it for long time too. it is better than reading through online. But, normally the website will just share some portion of the book contents only, i really don't do there are some website that sharing the whole book..thanks for letting me know bout it
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