eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 11 2008 | books, literature, public domain, copyright, publishing, thepugetnewsThis seems like a handy service. You can select a Public Domain book from the Internet Archive or Google Books and have it printed by Lulu for you.
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 12 2007 | books, publishing, free, DRM, piracy, thepugetnewsA great essay on why piracy is not harming legitimate sales of books but DRM is...
Quoted: Electronic copyright infringement is something that can only become an "economic epidemic" under certain conditions. Any one of the following:
Quoted: 1) The products they want—electronic texts—are hard to find, and thus valuable.
Quoted: 2) The products they want are high-priced, so there's a fair amount of money to be saved by stealing them.
Quoted: 3) The legal products come with so many added-on nuisances that the illegal version is better to begin with.
Quoted: Those are the three conditions that will create widespread electronic copyright infringement, especially in combination. Why? Because they're the same three general conditions that create all large-scale smuggling enterprises.
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