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

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APC&TCP: Project Guru Book Reprint Discontinued

It is already known that we try to reprint the English Amiga Guru Book by Ralph Babel.
Some additions were also planned to the original book.

The German Amiga Guru Book is available for some time now.

Nevertheless some Amiga users needed to put some pirated copies of the book online.

The print material is ready and actually we wanted to give it to the printing press.

But since several weeks there is a torrent with a pirated copy of the English Amiga Guru Book
online.

Due to the fact that some Amiga users don't show up any support towards those who keep their
platform up and try to supply them with information this project is hereby discontinued.

That's why the Amiga Future project AGG which should be financed through the reprint has also been
discontinued.

Original statement by Ralph Babel:

Unfortunately, the release of the 800-page extended edition of the Amiga Guru Book (covering OS 3.x
and beyond) scheduled for April was preempted by some fool seeding a scan of the older version into
one of those pirate-to-pirate networks, eliminating all hopes of me ever being able to recover the
cost of a reprint, so the project had to be stopped immediately to avoid further loss of time and
money. Thank you, Keith.

http://babel.de
http://www.apc-tcp.de

This is absolutely stupid, by cancelling the official publication, he is forcing people to use the pirate copy, and legitimizing the pirate channel as the only way of getting that which most current amiga users are perfectly willing to pay for.

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1. TjLaZer
2. AltRN8
3. CountZero
4. Hans
5. tiffers
6. Tahoe
7. AmigaDave
8. AmigaHeretic
9. madsjm
10. MrZammler
11. Firedawg  :-D
12. Andeda
13. A6000

If they do not print this book, then they should release the revised version as a torrent and I will get lulu.com to print me one copy for 19.95.

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nOw2 wrote:
1. TjLaZer
2. AltRN8
3. CountZero
4. Hans
5. tiffers
6. Tahoe
7. AmigaDave
8. AmigaHeretic
9. madsjm
10. MrZammler
11. Firedawg
12. Marcb
13. buzz
14. OSS542
15. Andeda
16. A6000
17. Splurge
18. Trekie_J
19. CaptainMooMoo
20. Matt_H
21. Gavilan
22. Fester
23. Nyle
24. ZeBeeDee
25. Webmany
26. Joe Torre (prepay=Y)
27. LoadWB (prepay=Y)
28. twizzle
29. nOw2

Would amigakit and other retailers be prepared to order 10 copies each for stock?