An award winning light novel author coming upon their work being illegally shared online has condemned those who share works online as committing an act of “sacrilege” against authors, whilst encouraging readers to use libraries or second-hand bookshops instead…
The author, 葵東 / Aoi Azuma, explains in a blog post entitled “Please stop file sharing!“:
“My ‘Magical Ingredients’ (魔法の材料ございます / Mahou no Zairou Gozaimasu) novel series is available on file sharing services. [The author refers to download links/hashes for the Share P2P network visible in Google via an index]
66SFdjoc7x-san, please stop uploading them immediately.
If you want to read it for free, please use your local library.
I don’t mind if you buy it second-hand either.
Please stop this file sharing!
It’s sacrilege to the works and the authors.
66SFdjoc7x-san, you are an enemy of we, the writers.”
Of course, an author objecting to unauthorised scans of their work being distributed online for free is neither terribly surprising nor unreasonable (assuming they derive their income chiefly from the royalties from book sales).
However, the author unintentionally creates an interesting paradox by urging readers to borrow or buy the books second-hand – if the author cares about fame or pleasing the masses, then logically there is little reason to decry sharing online or off, whereas if money and sales are the objective, libraries and second-hand sales are hardly desirable either…
i agree with the author
BUT
that won’t stop me from pirating~
in italy there is not any hentai store
or second hand
p2p will never die
for european people
if you cannot reach the pirate bay just use a simple
web proxy
and use opendns
In capitalism, businesses either adapt or die. That’s all there is. You can block people from getting something for free, but you can’t force them to buy anything if they don’t want to OR can’t afford. You’ve got 2 options left : 1) Work harder, be more creative, get a better marketing team, try cutting production costs so you can lower the price, etc etc, in general rethink your business model, or 2) Die.
Yeah, it’s unfortunate that many people lose their jobs when the market changes, it’s unfortunate businesses go bankrupt, but no business is eternal unless it adapts to the situation every time, so, unless you want to come up with a better ecomonic system, I suggest you start taking the good with the bad.
the purpose for authors is to write something that everyone will read, the more people the better, if not then you are just a whore who sell your talent for money
Don’t be ridiculous. People have to earn a living.
stop! the poor guy wont be able to buy his gold bed