does literature get pirated too?

[tavelkyosoba]

Textbooks are pirated like it's going out of style. There's big money in textbooks, and so there's a lot of people trying to steal them.

And since stealing physical copies from other classmates makes people feel bad, they just steal from the publisher.


But really, who's the REAL thief? amirite?

($150 for a 70 page book? It'd better come with a hooker.)

 

[THAC0]

Textbooks are pirated like it's going out of style. There's big money in textbooks, and so there's a lot of people trying to steal them.

And since stealing physical copies from other classmates makes people feel bad, they just steal from the publisher.


But really, who's the REAL thief? amirite?

($150 for a 70 page book? It'd better come with a hooker.)

I refuse to sell my textbooks back to the store. I refuse to let them give me a few bucks for a book that i paid well upwards of $60 on, then turn around and re sell them for another $60. Small vengeance i know.

that, and i am a history grad student. so by now i have a pretty impressive library of history books on a wide range of topics, which is nice and has come in handy more times than i can count.

 

[photog212]

the subject of piracy is pretty well known when it comes to video games and computer software. but i was wondering if novels are also being affected by it.

books are a huge business that don't seem to be going away anytime soon, and the presence of e-readers has brought digital books into the computer world in a pretty big way, so i am sure there are electronic copies of many books floating around out there. So are publishing companies and book stores finding their products affected right along side video games, music, and movies? If so they are being pretty quiet about it.

Yes it does. One of the most famous people to fight piracy (copyright law kind) was Charles Dickens.
http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/abaj50&div=312&id=&page=

Yes, that Charles Dickens

 

[THAC0]

the subject of piracy is pretty well known when it comes to video games and computer software. but i was wondering if novels are also being affected by it.

books are a huge business that don't seem to be going away anytime soon, and the presence of e-readers has brought digital books into the computer world in a pretty big way, so i am sure there are electronic copies of many books floating around out there. So are publishing companies and book stores finding their products affected right along side video games, music, and movies? If so they are being pretty quiet about it.

Yes it does. One of the most famous people to fight piracy (copyright law kind) was Charles Dickens.
http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/abaj50&div=312&id=&page=

Yes, that Charles Dickens

i know that in the 1800s many American "writers" would take books published in England, rip the covers off, and stick a new one on with their name on it and sell it as their own work.

I fond this, while researching the history of medicine in America and it pertained to medical books and surgical manuals. I can't believe that was the only genre hit.

 

[The Stonker]

Techniclly audiobooks =D

 

[Mcupobob]

No because the people who buy those e-books don't need to pirate software because they obviously too much disposable income anyways.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Yes. people scan books, put them onto the internet, and you can read them.

It's one of the weirdest things I've ever seen, but also massuvely helpful if you have a huge reading list for your university course and don't want to waste money on things you'll never touch again.

 

[Kouen]

Yes it does, it was the beginning of the end of the Twilight series. That doesn't make it acceptable though.

Does that mean that the emo vampire fad will disappear and the vampires in every other thing can yet again grow some balls? w0000000t

ya im not a twilight fan if you couldnt tell xD

but on topic: I Don't see books going anywhere... ever. its one of the mediums that have stood the test of time and while i dont read often if i was to grab another Dragonlance book it wouldn't be an E-Book but a nice Paperback

 

[Veylon]

Book used to get pirated. As in, publishers would just publish whatever book happened to be popular and pocket the money without a cent going to the author. This happened to Dickens (he made squat off of A Christmas Carol) and, to a lesser extent, Tolkien. Literature piracy is the reason that copyright laws exist today.

And yes, there are pdf scans you can download for probably any given book. I have a couple for books I already own, but need to search for things in. It's not often heard of, or given much thought as books are already available for free in libraries, they don't cost so much as games, and people who read them for pleasure generally like having an actual physical thing to read. We'll see what happens once things like the Nook take off.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Yes. Literature gets pirated. Especially audio books, but also just as text.

Things making it not affect that much on book sales: A physical book is much more pleasant to use than reading vast amounts of text on a screen. You can carry a book with you and don't need anything else to enjoy it.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

If it isn't, I imagine it soon will be.

 

[Hashime]

Textbooks are pirated like it's going out of style. There's big money in textbooks, and so there's a lot of people trying to steal them.

And since stealing physical copies from other classmates makes people feel bad, they just steal from the publisher.


But really, who's the REAL thief? amirite?

($150 for a 70 page book? It'd better come with a hooker.)

I refuse to sell my textbooks back to the store. I refuse to let them give me a few bucks for a book that i paid well upwards of $60 on, then turn around and re sell them for another $60. Small vengeance i know.

that, and i am a history grad student. so by now i have a pretty impressive library of history books on a wide range of topics, which is nice and has come in handy more times than i can count.

Same, plus the $270 I paid for "General Chemistry 10" will not go to waste, it is a good reference text. One of my profs was nice enough to scan the questions from the textbook for us so I did not have to buy 2 books.

 

[teebeeohh]

it does
a lot
but because the the raltion of books sold to books pirated is not as high as with movies or games it's not as well known. or the publishers of the books are just old fools who think their medium is immune to piracy

 

[Hashime]

I'd say that the ammount of grapic novels, novels, and magazines in PDF fromat on my Hard Disk justifies that amswer : yes It certainly does.

I would revise that if I were you, you mean the amount of PDF files your buddy has on his HDD that he has shown you, after which you scolded him for piracy.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Hmm, I wonder, is it bad that I have some audio books? I've bought the original books in hardback, and my local library has them on cd for free loan, but it was just easier to download them to put them on my player than rip 10 or 12 cds.

On the main topic however, I'd say it's the simple tactile feel of owning a book that is something most people just can't get past, including me, to the point where I'll always buy a hardback if I can get it, despite it being at least an extra £5 for exactly the same product.

There's something sooo pleasing about a bookshelf with a row all by the same author.

 

[BlueGlowstick]

Google Shakespeare or Edgar Allan Poe & tell me what you see.

A boat load of pirated stuff. it's how I was able to read Macbeth in my senior year without bringing home a 25-lb. book. as well as use ppl's notes...

so yep. :/

 

[Luftwaffles]

Id rather read physical books. But sometimes when i borrow one from the library i photocopy some pages. Specially from the fishing ones. Good info to keep.

 

[WolfThomas]

Comic books get scanned and uploaded. It's disappointing because of the state of the comicbook market these days, but at the same time it allows huge libraries of issues to be stored on a tiny laptop and for much older issues, possibly rare or out of print, to be read. There's no fighting it and the problem is that legitimate online alternatives are inferior in both selection choice and the programs for reading them.

Oh yeah and just throwing it out there with literature that's public domain damned if I'm paying for it.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

Yes, I've seen E-books and manga scans.