Kindle 2's audio capabilities

[readingthedark]

Since I'm seeing opposing points of view from people I respect, I figure I'll just rant a little in both directions. I meant to do a rant on how novelists with a book coming out should view bookstores, but that one has ballooned into an article. I swear I could go on about a stale cookie for seventy pages

Comments

[simi]

My justifications for piracy tend along the line of unknowns who I am introduced to via pirated music. If I like something, chances are I'll search out more of it and purchase it by legitimate means. And with smaller record companies (like Ani DiFranco's back in the day) piracy was the only way to effectively spread the music and create the demand that allowed for more to be available legitimately.

As for used books - I've bought several that while they ARE currently available, I have already purchased a copy (and often several copies). A lot of the books I had in high school have succumbed to unnatural disaster that is my parents' house. I figure the author already got my money for the book at least once (in several cases more than once). In that case it's not so much about what the author can afford as what *I* can afford...

Some day I'll be as wealthy as Elton John and be able to afford to buy three legit compies of everything I like just to support the artists involved. Until then, some pirated and some used material makes its way into my libraries, but hopefully well balanced by all of the stuff I pay full price for!

[readingthedark]

My feeling with used books is a bit different. The author, if no one cheated, is paid for the first sale, at which point I think people should be able to do whatever they want with the physical object that they have purchased. Further, I'd hate to think that I was morally obligated to throw books into the trash when I finished them. (You'll see that some of the books I'm sending you are ARCs and strips. With those, I feel like it's wrong to sell them -- but I don't want to toss them if I can help it.)

There are artists where I buy multiple copies. I could pretend that they are "investments" because I certainly sell books on occasion, but I confess that it is more honest to admit that I am obsessed enough with books that multiple copies are a security blanket to protect me from reality.

[simi]

*grin* I've lost track of how many copies of Dead Until Dark I've purchased...