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and as well as . I stumbled across a website yesterday that had a link for downloading a pirated copy of Myriad Universes: Shattered Light.
Seven people--on that site, the screen names sathinks, max101cc, Brega10, danijeronimo, quantummagma, sithlady, and TuskinRaider--had helped themselves to this stolen book, and sithlady commented to the poster "You keep providing ST novel goodness. Appreciated!"
Well, sithlady, if you really appreciate ST novel goodness, I would recommend you don't steal them, but support the writers by buying the books, generating royalties and sales that will encourage the writers and the publisher to do more. If you can't afford to buy the book, use a library. Recommend to your library that they carry more Star Trek books. That would be good. As opposed to the bad that you are currently doing.
To the original poster (who used a screen name that has also been used on TrekBBS; since there's no way of knowing if it's the same person I will refrain from using it here): I'm sure you've come up with some sort of tired rationalization to convince yourself that what you're doing isn't wrong, but every single writer of every single book you're uploading would tell you otherwise. If you truly like Star Trek and Star Trek books, then at least out of respect for the writers you should stop uploading them.
If any of the people who use such sites (you know who you are) are reading this post, make no mistake: you are doing wrong by us writers. You can rant about corporations that make too much money or overly restrictive DRMs or whatever . . . but in the end the people who write the books put a lot of time and effort and, yes, I'll say it, love into creating these stories. And just like anyone who creates something--be it a painting, a cabinet, or a song--we should be able to sell that creation if we choose, which helps finance the time we need for whatever art we are able to create. When you take that away from us by downloading pirated copies, you are stealing from us as surely as if you entered our houses and took something off a shelf. Just because movie and music and book distribution has now lost the necessity of being tied to a physical object, it doesn't change the fact that if you take a copy of something for free that's supposed to be for sale, you are shoplifting.
And to you I say and as well as .
and as well as . I stumbled across a website yesterday that had a link for downloading a pirated copy of Myriad Universes: Shattered Light. Seven people--on that site, the screen names sathinks, max101cc, Brega10, danijeronimo, quantummagma, sithlady, and TuskinRaider--had helped themselves to this stolen book, and sithlady commented to the poster "You keep providing ST novel goodness. Appreciated!"
Well, sithlady, if you really appreciate ST novel goodness, I would recommend you don't steal them, but support the writers by buying the books, generating royalties and sales that will encourage the writers and the publisher to do more. If you can't afford to buy the book, use a library. Recommend to your library that they carry more Star Trek books. That would be good. As opposed to the bad that you are currently doing.
To the original poster (who used a screen name that has also been used on TrekBBS; since there's no way of knowing if it's the same person I will refrain from using it here): I'm sure you've come up with some sort of tired rationalization to convince yourself that what you're doing isn't wrong, but every single writer of every single book you're uploading would tell you otherwise. If you truly like Star Trek and Star Trek books, then at least out of respect for the writers you should stop uploading them.
If any of the people who use such sites (you know who you are) are reading this post, make no mistake: you are doing wrong by us writers. You can rant about corporations that make too much money or overly restrictive DRMs or whatever . . . but in the end the people who write the books put a lot of time and effort and, yes, I'll say it, love into creating these stories. And just like anyone who creates something--be it a painting, a cabinet, or a song--we should be able to sell that creation if we choose, which helps finance the time we need for whatever art we are able to create. When you take that away from us by downloading pirated copies, you are stealing from us as surely as if you entered our houses and took something off a shelf. Just because movie and music and book distribution has now lost the necessity of being tied to a physical object, it doesn't change the fact that if you take a copy of something for free that's supposed to be for sale, you are shoplifting.
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