Yo ho, heave ho: International Please Don't Pirate My Book Day.

[seanan_mcguire]

My beloved Chuck Wendig (he upon whose shoulder I ride always, invisible, intangible, and whispering horrible profanity into the jellyfish-like ridges of his ear) made a post about book piracy yesterday, declaring today, February 6th, International Please Don't Pirate My Book Day. He asked people to post about their experiences with piracy. And

Comments

[ckd]

As a cheering counter-note, I've bought paper and/or electronic copies of books that I already had legitimate-but-unpaid-for ebooks of (Hugo nominees that I got in the voter's bundle, Tor books that were freebies during the Tor.com launch, Baen Free Library) because I wanted to support the authors and publishers.

Your books have been among them.

[seanan_mcguire]

You are awesome.

[ext_1081495]

I "found" you through Feed in the Hugo voters pack. Which I am very grateful for

[seanan_mcguire]

Eventually the publishers, studios and broadcaters will provide a level playing field where everyone can pay just for what they want and not be denied because of geography, or a requirement to pay for channels that aren't wanted.

I cannot WAIT.

[seanan_mcguire]

Yar!

[seanan_mcguire]

Ah will do this thang.

[vixyish]

That is an EXCELLENT habit. :D

[seanan_mcguire]

I love you with the burning fire of a thousand suns.

[spectralbovine]

I really hope Vericon is a convention all about Verity and the panels are about ballroom dancing and gun maintenance.

[herefox]

I never pirated books and have done my best in recent years not to pirate music largely in part because now a days I know enough authors and musicians, at least on the internet if not personally face to face to find it appalling to do so. I think with both these things most people assume that authors are raking in money like Stephen King or J.K.Rowling and not just barely making minimum wage or less for the time they put into doing something they love.

I like to think that even if I didn't know people involved in making awesome things I still wouldn't pirate (and it's probably true with books, I like having them to pet far too much. I can't even get used to getting them in e-reader format!) but who knows? I do think it's important that people like you do speak about the effects of piracy on the smaller name authors and musicians. And I totally want you to be able to write sixty hours and sleep occasionally. ;-)

[seanan_mcguire]

Sleep would be AMAZING.