Firlefanz
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Using pirate scans to reestablish backlist
Just found this, and thought it was interesting. Considering the copyright discussion, what SF writer Walter Jon Williams did is rather amazing:
Walter Jon Williams uses pirate ebooks to rescue his backlist (Boing boing)
Crowdsource, please from his blog.
So, what do you think? Is he on the right track?
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5/19/2011, 11:36 am
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QS2
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Re: Using pirate scans to reestablish backlist
Seems like an example of how to have a self organising community. Those things can work quite well at times, it depends on how motivated and well organised every one gets really.
Over all I think it's an interesting idea on how to get eBook versions of your books though, at the least it's pretty cheap.
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5/20/2011, 1:09 pm
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Reythia
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Re: Using pirate scans to reestablish backlist
There's just something rather amusing about this.
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5/25/2011, 5:34 pm
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JessieLong
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Re: Using pirate scans to reestablish backlist
ARRR!
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Backburner: Electric Ladythief, Scion and Ratface; The Rose and the Sword (books); Seekers (comic book series); Grey Submarine (series)
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5/26/2011, 3:53 pm
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Pastor Rick
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Re: Using pirate scans to reestablish backlist
I like the links to digitizing products. I think that will save me tons of time bringing my Dads writings into a more usable format.
On the other hand, while he is working at doing things legit I wonder how many "copyright pirates" will learn from this discussion better and easier ways to break the law...
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6/5/2011, 7:59 pm
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QS2
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Re: Using pirate scans to reestablish backlist
The law is obsolete in the face of current ways to use information anyway, it's obvious it's going to need serious reform in the long term. Problems like described here happen all the time now, with the need of less legal methods just to achieve something completely reasonable.
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6/5/2011, 8:37 pm
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Flasheart2006
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Re: Using pirate scans to reestablish backlist
I'm just appalled that nobody--him, his agent or his publisher--has a copy of the manuscript on file somewhere, or at least a spare copy of the book to just tear up and run through the photocopier
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6/6/2011, 3:04 pm
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Reythia
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Re: Using pirate scans to reestablish backlist
Actually, Flash, before computers, that used to be pretty common, especially for short story writers. At best, you'd have a fuzzy carbon copy. How many years would most writers keep those around for, though?
I remember reading a series of short stories by George RR Martin, which had autobiographical parts interspersed throughout. If I recall correctly, he lost several stories when he sent his only precious copy to a magazine, had it accepted... and then nothing happened because the magazine shut down before his story printed! After that, he kept the carbon copies, but said it still really sucked to have to retype the tales from them.
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6/6/2011, 5:57 pm
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Flasheart2006
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Re: Using pirate scans to reestablish backlist
EDIT:
Sorry, I'll remove what I admit was a rant about former employers and replace it with a more succinct answer, which is that yes, maybe you're right that not everybody used to keep back-up copies of their work, but all I know is that I used to work for a particular publishers who kept a massive archive of every manuscript they ever published and I can quite surely say that they'd never have the trouble this gentleman is currently experiencing.
As for this particular case, I think it's quite ingenious. His actions are perfectly legal and it's a sensible solution to his problem. Bravo sir!
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6/6/2011, 6:39 pm
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