I can fully understand why Mr. Babel wouldn't want to continue. It's horrible to see all your hard work put online for free, it's happened to me before now.
However, just because one idiot wants to put it online doesn't mean anything..... just because it's available for free instead of giving money to the author doesn't mean everyone's going to do that. In fact, I would say that practically everybody who has enough of an interest to pay for this book appreciates that they need to buy it to support the author. The people who torrent it wouldn't want to buy it anyway.
I think this would probably affect his sales by about 5%-10%, that's all. I do say that a pre-order system is a good idea, though.... certainly much better than punishing an entire community because of one ignorant fool.
