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24-04-2008 20:25
 
I had forgotten about that whole Stephen King fiasco until I read it just now. I remember reading about it when it happened. 
 
The whole recent thing about stealing copyrighted movies and music crept into the books debate then. But it didn't make any sense. Books have always been a model of how you can give something away for free and still make money on a product......it's called a library. I know, it's a bit different from ebooks or mp3s or digital copies of movies in that, at least with music, people might not give back or delete the file after a while. So it's not totally the same thing.  
 
Anyway, it struck me as kind of odd that an author was complaining about some people paying for his book while some people didn't. Then again, people often fight to get their books into libraries so that their work can get read at all, as advertisement. If there's one author on the planet who doesn't need advertisement, it's Stephen King. 
 
Having said that, it wasn't like it was a kind of bootlegging thing going on either. It was an honor system initiated by the author. The whole thing was weird.
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