{"id":4257,"date":"2010-04-11T16:10:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T23:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=4257"},"modified":"2010-04-11T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T23:10:25","slug":"is-stealing-ebooks-ethical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/04\/11\/is-stealing-ebooks-ethical\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Stealing eBooks Ethical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/StealingBooks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4258\" title=\"StealingBooks\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/StealingBooks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/StealingBooks.jpg 400w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/StealingBooks-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Is it ethical to steal an eBook if you&#8217;ve purchased the hardback version?\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 Stealing the hardbacks themselves is much more fun though.\u00a0 Is it ethical for a publisher to charge what they charge for hardbacks?\u00a0 No way at all.\u00a0 Sorry publishers, your pricing sucks and you know it.\u00a0 So, certainly it&#8217;s ethical to steal an eBook if I&#8217;ve been robbed by the hardback price already.<\/p>\n<p>Now of course all the minimum wage proof readers in New York City will pounce on me and call me terrible names because they dread being turned into temp workers.<\/p>\n<p>But stealing books is a real talent.\u00a0 You need a big army jacket that has lots of giant pockets inside and out.\u00a0 It&#8217;s best to steal them from large grocery and discount stores.\u00a0 eBooks are too easy to steal and you never really know what&#8217;s waiting for you on the other end of a download link anyway.\u00a0 The photo is of me demonstrating my own book-stealing technique.\u00a0 I have amassed quite the respectable library this way.\u00a0 But I never lend books out because they seldom make their way back home.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an effort by a New York Times writer to answer the question of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/04\/magazine\/04FOB-ethicist-t.html\">whether stealing ebooks is ethical or not<\/a> if you&#8217;ve already bought the hardback.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2010\/01\/confessions-of-a-book-pirate.html\">better piece at The Millions<\/a> about an eBook pirate who&#8217;s pretty clear about what he likes.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you want to see how stealing books actually improves the world and culture, read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312427484?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=candlestorie-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0312427484\">The Savage Detectives<\/a><\/em> by Roberto Bola\u00f1o.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=candlestorie-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0312427484\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it ethical to steal an eBook if you&#8217;ve purchased the hardback version?\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 Stealing the hardbacks themselves is much more fun though.\u00a0 Is it ethical for a publisher to charge what they charge for hardbacks?\u00a0 No way at all.\u00a0 Sorry publishers, your pricing sucks and you know it.\u00a0 So, certainly it&#8217;s ethical to steal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,137,1042],"tags":[2500,243,1044,200],"class_list":["post-4257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-publishing","category-books","category-e-books","tag-books","tag-ebooks","tag-ethics","tag-publishing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}