Harry Potter EBooks?

Posted by Byron Collins on July 16, 2005, 7:14 am

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Hi All,

Are there any "legal" eBooks in the works by "NOW"?
If not, here an Online Petition you can sign:

http://www.petitiononline.com/hpebook/petition.html

Regards,
Byron Collins
Kentucky, USA

Posted by Harry Hazardous on July 16, 2005, 7:10 pm

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Byron Collins wrote:
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For illegal copies, try alt.binaries.ebooks and so forth.

Posted by Alkinoos on July 18, 2005, 4:47 am

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On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 07:14:03 -0700, "Byron Collins"

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This is silly. She has no reason to pay attention to any petitions.

If you want to do something, improve the quality of the underground
e-books.

Dave

When the Prime Minister spoke yesterday I thought to myself, "I hope I'll
be able to give a speech like that when I grow up" - Bill Clinton, October
2, 2002

Posted by Sky_rider on July 18, 2005, 11:03 am

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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 04:47:22 -0500, Alkinoos
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from the fermented blood of a Norwegian Ridgeback:

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Not that I wish to take away her money... but I think an individual
who is paid AU$47 million for one days takings can afford the drain
caused by people leeching illegal e-books...

.... in fact I think she could give probably the next one away and
*still* male millions off it :)

Trouble is of course it isn't JKR who'll be kicking up a fuss, it's
the publishers :)
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Skyrider

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Posted by Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileD on July 18, 2005, 11:52 am

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What have you have produced in your life and existance that you can
afford to allow to be leeched by individuals who feel they have the
right to take parts of your life without paying for them?

Flowers from your yard, gas from your vehicle, code you have written,
tools left unsecured, a purse on the front seat, a wallet taken from a
crowded event, your child's shoes or their gameboy at school, etc, etc?

We, as a society, have to respect the rights and property of others,
for, if we fail to do so in any way and at any level (such as an illegal
copy of a book) we implicitly forfeit any and all rights to object when
the same violations are visited on ourselves.

I agree that the publishers are far from guiltless, but there are other
options to deal with them such as fostering alternatives such as
micropayments to help put them out of business before their time.

Beverly Howard