The First Casualty Of Any Battle Is

There Are People Already Sharing Ebooks Out There, .. And They Do It Simply Because They Love Books. You Don't Buy A Second Copy Of A Book, Cut The Spine Off, Lay Each Page On A Scanner, Run That .tif Through An Ocr (optical Character Reader), Hand Edit The Resulting Output For Errors And Then Post It Online If You Don't Love The Book. It Can Up To 80 Hours To Turn A Printed Novel Into An Ebook. I Figure If Someone Out There Is Willing To Put In 80 Hours Of Work Promoting My Book, Then I'd Prefer They Do It In A Way That Gives A Better Return To Me.

Most Of The Books, Music And Movies Ever Released Are Not Available For Sale, Anywhere In The World. In The Brief Time That P2p Nets Have Flourished, The Ad-hoc Masses Of The Internet Have Managed To Put Just About *everything* Online. What's More, They've Done It Far Cheaper Than Any Other Archiving/revival Effort Ever.

It's Part Of A Cycle Of Stories I'm Writing Where I Deconstruct Classic Science Fiction.

The Idea That Bigger Haystacks Have More Needles In Them Is Dumb On Its Face

I'm Not A Lawyer I'm A Kind Of Mouthpiece/activist Type, Though Occasionally They Shave Me And Stuff Me Into My Bar Mitzvah Suit And Send Me To A Standards Body Or The Un To Stir Up Trouble. I Spend About Three Weeks A Month On The Road Doing Completely Weird Stuff Like Going To Microsoft To Talk About Drm.