{"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":"

\"\"<\/a>Is it ethical to steal an eBook if you’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’s ethical to steal an eBook if I’ve been robbed by the hardback price already.<\/p>\n

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

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’s best to steal them from large grocery and discount stores.\u00a0 eBooks are too easy to steal and you never really know what’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

Here is an effort by a New York Times writer to answer the question of whether stealing ebooks is ethical or not<\/a> if you’ve already bought the hardback.<\/p>\n

But here’s a better piece at The Millions<\/a> about an eBook pirate who’s pretty clear about what he likes.<\/p>\n

Also, if you want to see how stealing books actually improves the world and culture, read The Savage Detectives<\/a><\/em> by Roberto Bola\u00f1o.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it ethical to steal an eBook if you’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’s ethical to steal […]<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t