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

[the_leander]

There are many print on demand services on the internet (lulu.com being a particularly good example), so the cost to the author is zilch, to cancel it on the basis of a torrent is to cut off what would otherwise be a perfectly good business model.

All this chap has done, is guarantee that the torrent will be used. If he'd kept quiet, chances are most of the Amiga community would never have even known of it's existence.

Well played.

[the_leander]

weirdami wrote:

he is forcing people to use the pirate copy

no he's not.

There is a market for this book, people want to pay to get this information, some people might even argue that they need this information, by denying them a legitimate route to get at it, the author is in fact, forcing people to look elsewhere to acquire it. Since there are likely very few instances of this book being available on ebay, for instance, the only alternative is the torrented pdf, ergo, he is forcing people to use the pirate copy to access it.

I thank you, I'll be here all week.

 :-D