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Jul.09.2012 Avast! E-book piracy, part four - Just lookin'. One of the more common reasons I've heard for downloading a copy is the "just looking" one. On the one hand, I get this. One of the things you can do in a brick and mortar store is wander over to a chair, sit down, open the book, and start reading. Read the blurb, the critical praise, find out...	Jul.08.2012 Avast! E-book piracy, part three - Publishers work hard. There are absolutely authors out there who can produce quality work all by themselves. I'm not one of them. There's a part of me that wonders if there's some accidental modesty or an attempt to make an author seem so mysterious afoot in the sometimes general lack of awareness about what a...
Jul.07.2012 Avast! E-book piracy, part two - better fools. There's that great tongue in cheek saying, and I think it applies wonderfully to the idea of DRM, that "fool proof plans just make for better fools." When it comes to E-book piracy, one of the ideas publishers have come up with is the DRM. DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) is more easily...	Jul.06.2012 Avast! E-book Piracy, part one: It's Not Like the Library. I recently found (and retweeted a link to) what I thought was a nifty little blog entry from Rachel Vincent that helped clear up a bit of the process for whether or not someone had committed some e-piracy. I liked the blog (obviously, or I wouldn't have linked to it) in that I thought it did very...
Jan.15.2010 The Writers Walk the Plank Ahoy Matey! Prepare for a curmudgeonly post! You know, I really don’t know how pirates came by their cute, fun, and harmless image. Little kids (boys, especially) seem to love all things pirate these days. Just check out the toy aisle of your local Target or WalMart. But there’s nothing cute about...