Are You Going To Jail For Stealing EBooks?
Have you ever noticed that the Internet Marketing community seems to have the belief that once you’ve bought an ebook you cannot share the information contained therein?
Have you ever bought a regular book and talked about it to your friends telling them the plot and perhaps some details from the book?
You weren’t breaking any copyright laws when you did so. In fact it’s considered “fair use” to do this type of stuff.
And yet, with ebooks it seems to be different. With ebooks, the purchaser feels some type of obligation to not spread the “secrets” contained withiin the book.
As a sidenote, there are quite a few crappy ebooks out there so why not let people know about em and save them some money.
Certainly the sales letter for the ebook isn’t going to give you enough specifics. Especially with all of the hype that goes on in the Internet Marketing community about new products.
And one other thing while I’m on this subject…why is it that I cannot sell my ebook after I’ve bought it? Is it just destined to be digital dust? If I have a regular book and want to sell it there’s no problem with that. It should be the same with ebooks - regardless of the fact that they are in digital form.
What do you think? Am I way off base here? Got something to add?
G-Man
P.S. I’ll be reviewing that 5 Bucks a Day soon so be on the lookout for that.
3 Responses
Hi, G-Man, well there’s a big difference. If you buy a hard cover book, and sell it, how often can you sell it?
And after you sell it, there is still only one copy of it, which you no longer have.
If you sell or give someone an eBook, you still have it, and so does the other person, and theoretically you or they could sell it again or give it away, if it were allowed.
Put yourself in the author’s place. Please.
January 6th, 2008 |
I would not condone someone selling it multiple times - that would be stealing imo. However, selling it ONE time and then deleting it from your hard drive would be perfectly acceptable to me and protect the author as well.
G-Man
January 6th, 2008 |
Thats just stupid Dennis,
I can take my reg book and photocopy the hell out of it and spread it as well in PDF form to people, or print it out and bind it myself and give it out by hand.
I’ve had to do this with printer manuals at a local print shop I worked at years ago.
Regardless, if someone wants a copy of something, they will get it… regardless of digital or hardback format.
January 7th, 2008 |