Comments on: Are Pirate-site Downloaders Better Than Muggers, Pickpockets and Shoplifters? This Victim Doesn’t Think So http://ereads.com/2009/04/are-pirate-site-downloaders-better-than.html Read the latest publishing news and provocative blogs by top commentators in the traditional and digital publishing fields. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:29:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: RowenaBCherry http://ereads.com/2009/04/are-pirate-site-downloaders-better-than.html/comment-page-1#comment-592 RowenaBCherry Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:11:06 +0000 http://ereadsdev.com/?p=546#comment-592 Well done for sharing your story. <br /><br />Have you also been ripped off on EBay or any of the other auction sites?<br /><br />An EBay vendor told me today that EBay employees are telling would-be vendors of ebooks that it's fine to sell private collections of authors' ebooks as long as the vendor burns the collection onto a CD.<br /><br />When innocent readers pay good money for CDs and emailed .pdfs from auction sites, those are real, actual, quantifiable sales that have been stolen from the authors and their agents. Well done for sharing your story.

Have you also been ripped off on EBay or any of the other auction sites?

An EBay vendor told me today that EBay employees are telling would-be vendors of ebooks that it's fine to sell private collections of authors' ebooks as long as the vendor burns the collection onto a CD.

When innocent readers pay good money for CDs and emailed .pdfs from auction sites, those are real, actual, quantifiable sales that have been stolen from the authors and their agents.

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