Piracy issues
I am just soo confused about this issue, nothing makes sense at the moment.
we had a class discussion on book publishing trends and it streered towards book piracy and how it affects the book industry. my teacher had a very valid point; he emphasized on the point that piracy IS stealing, and stealing is unethical no matter how big or small, or for whatever reasons. most of us really dont take piracy as a very unethical issue, its a theoretical concept, yes.
but think about it, someone took all the pains to publish a book- paid for the mauscript, the editors, the layout designers, the printers etc etc. and someone else takes a finished product, makes copies outta it and sells it at one-tenth the original price, because it cost peanuts to them!
so, it did help us but the writer/publisher didnt benifit from the sale of the book. this does discourage more writers from entering into the field!
BUT the big question here is- what do we do? i bought 12 pirated books for a thousand rupees, and i bought 5 original books for 1200 rupees! thats such a big difference!
if we really do commit ourselves to fight piracy we'll have to stop buying pirated books at all costs! but where do we go then???????????????????????????
we had a class discussion on book publishing trends and it streered towards book piracy and how it affects the book industry. my teacher had a very valid point; he emphasized on the point that piracy IS stealing, and stealing is unethical no matter how big or small, or for whatever reasons. most of us really dont take piracy as a very unethical issue, its a theoretical concept, yes.
but think about it, someone took all the pains to publish a book- paid for the mauscript, the editors, the layout designers, the printers etc etc. and someone else takes a finished product, makes copies outta it and sells it at one-tenth the original price, because it cost peanuts to them!
so, it did help us but the writer/publisher didnt benifit from the sale of the book. this does discourage more writers from entering into the field!
BUT the big question here is- what do we do? i bought 12 pirated books for a thousand rupees, and i bought 5 original books for 1200 rupees! thats such a big difference!
if we really do commit ourselves to fight piracy we'll have to stop buying pirated books at all costs! but where do we go then???????????????????????????
posted by Tooba at 3:10 AM
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