Lately, I’ve been reading MobyLives, the recently revived blog run by the folks at Melville House. There’s a generally contrarian angle to some of the coverage of publishing — particularly on the impact of electronic readers — which makes for a valuable perspective. In particular, their post on Google’s agreement with the Author’s Guild and their response to this post on the ethics of ebooks will leave you with a not insignificant amount on your mind, I suspect.
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December 3, 2008, Author: ,
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If you haven’t already, you may want to take a look at the comments starting around #240-250 on my blog entry (An Ethical Question Involving Ebooks). That’s when the more folks in the writing and publishing community starting picking up on the blog entry.
Also, please note that in the original blog entry, I did NOT give an opinion about whether it was OK to pirate an out-of-print book; I framed it as a question because I was curious how folks felt about the issue, and because I wanted to start a conversation — and you don’t do that by going all Jonathan Edwards-like, “You should all be ashamed, ASHAMED, of yourselves, by God!”. If you look at some of my later comments, I think you will find my views to be rather more nuanced….