David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Odd that we were talking about stealing books yesterday.
>
> This morning I learned that a French bookseller has
> purchased a single copy of my PDF book and is selling it
> on their web site (for about three times my price).
Wha....?
Forgive my naiveté, but isn't that, um, illegal?
Have bureaucracies become so weighty that "temporary" theft (one presumes
the French
authorities will eventually take action?) has become a regular business
operating on margins?
Man.
> I am afraid I have had to discontinue selling the PDF
> version of the book until I figure out what to do about
> this. Selling an electronic copy of the book was an
> experiment that involved a great deal of financial
> exposure on my part. I was worried something like this
> might happen. (Although, frankly, I didn't expect it
> from a bookseller. Blame it on naivety, I guess.)
So, basically, unless you have an army of lawyers around the world to
chase this stuff
down, you're screwed. Great.
Kurt Vonnegut was right - our brains are just waaaay too big for our own
good.
paulv
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