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

[amigadave]

I am also very angered by this turn of events.  I have been waiting for this book for a few years.  

I would be interested in participating in any effort to generate enough prepaid book sales to allow Ralph Babel to go forward with the updated version of the book in English.

[amigadave]

motorollin wrote:
Simple solution: take pre-orders. If there are enough to cover costs then print the books. If not, then nothing is lost.

--
moto

Isn't that what I said?

Let's start a list of those that are willing to pre-pay.

[amigadave]

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.

[amigadave]

Tahoe wrote:
Add your name below:

1.  TjLaZer
2.  AltRN8
3.  CountZero
4.  Hans
5.  tiffers
6.  Tahoe
7.  AmigaDave

Well, I doubt that having a list of 15 to 25 A.org members sign a list will make any difference, but I will play anyway.

I will buy the book or a PDF download and print my own, but I am with the others that say "no" to prepaying. Ralph can arrange a website with the download at a very low cost and little risk of recovering his investment.  It is a damn shame about what happened, but it doesn't mean he has to give up completely.  Publishing for such a small market was probably not cost efficient even without the bit torrent release.

[amigadave]

Good catch on the double 27s nOw2.

I guess there are a few more interested people here that want this book than I thought.  Has anyone notified the other Amiga websites of our little list?

I have been unable to use my password, or create a new password at AmigaWorld.net for a few months.  and their random password creator/reset mechanism does not work, so I can't get in to create a new password.  That plus I can't find any email addresses of the site administrators to tell them of the problem, so I can't get any help to fix the problem.  This is the only site that I have time to be active in (it's my favorite), so I think I get deleted from AW.net due to lack of activity.

[amigadave]

Finally got my AW.net login fixed and posted over there about this list of buyers.

I also had another thought, how many of you buyers would prepay by buying a download version first with the agreement to have your credit card charged again for a printed version only after the book was printed and on its way to you in the mail?  I know that I would participate in such an idea.  That way I have something for the money I have spent on the download, that money helps them fund the publishing of the actual book, and then my credit card is not charged for the actual book until it is ready for shipment to me.  Andreas gets some money now and a promise for more money later when the book exists and is ready for shipment and he already has the list of buyers and their credit card numbers.

What do you think?

[amigadave]

@Phantom, and any others that have not already signed the petition, here is the link again.

Adding your name to this list is no longer necessary and you should sign the petition instead.

[amigadave]

HenryCase wrote:
*Bump*
I don't like repeating myself again and again, so I'll make this brief. Over 110 signatures now. 170 signatures is the target so please sign the petition if you haven't done so (and if you'd like to see the book published, naturally!).

http://www.petitiononline.com/4m1ga123/petition.html

Only another 13 signatures needed to reach that 170 number.  I wonder if this is going to make any difference?

I would really rather have a book instead of a 3 ring binder with a bunch of pdf's inside, but if Ralph still refuses to publish, what are we to do?

He must realize that he is forcing those that oppose piracy to consider it when he refuses to publish his work.

Damn Pirates! :madashell: