New run of Guru Book cancelled due to pirate copy in circulation

[koaftder]

What a cop out. 95% of the people who would want that book would have bought it. I've been waiting for this book and now we get this crap excuse for not printing it.

[koaftder]

I'm not pre paying for this book in the hope that the author graces us with his work. The book is a product. When they produce the product they'll get my money. I know amiga and related products are hard to come by but it's no excuse to reduce oneself to begging or taking on risk for something that might never provide a return.

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amigadave wrote:
I would rather have a printed book in hand, but agree that Ralph Babel could set up a website with a purchase option to download a PDF version of his new book instead of giving up and blaming the pirates.  The costs should be low enough to cover with sales that way.

I'd rather have a printed book too. I think this is just a case where the guy realizes there isn't any money to be made and a good chance of taking a loss on it. Selling a PDF would eliminate most of his risk. No having to pay for printers, shippers, etc. Just about everybody who wants this book will buy it if he will just offer it for sale.

[koaftder]

I grabbed the torrent to see what the fuss was about as I also had heard that the scan from a long time ago was really bad and basically unreadable. This sucker is damn good. Every page is almost perfect and it's OCR'd. I used to work in an imaging department scanning in pharma docs for companies getting off the paper. This wasn't some nerd with tons of time on his hands scanning in a book on a flat bed.

[koaftder]

somebody had access to a really nice industrial scanner and took the time to de spine that book, or perhaps they had a copy that wasn't bound. I bet that author is pissed.

[koaftder]

It sucks, now I feel like I have to buy the German version I can't read just for doing that.

[koaftder]

This has nothing to do with collecting amiga related stuff. The end goal is to get good documentation and reference material in the hands of developers. Those of us who are interested in writing software for Amigas know about this book and have wanted it for quite a while.

[koaftder]

 Go ahead and put my name on the list too, but I'm not bending over for it either.

EDIT: keeping my negativity to myself (:

[koaftder]

The authors need to accept the money, people want to pay. It's a rare thing in business that customers ask the host to take their money for a product.