We have deactivated the links to the illegal files mentioned in your e-mails. Sorry for inconveniences you have encountered! When I clicked the abuse button at the site where I found the file and reported these 8 illegal copies, this is the form letter I got back from the 'file sharing' site.

And they're probably complaining right now about how awful this economy is. And they would also be Appalled! Outraged! Insulted! if someone degraded and shrugged off the hard work they do in a day. I guarantee you that the people who steal from me would be really pissed off if someone did the same thing to them. What I'm not okay with is the reason I can't afford that iPad (Or, more accurately, my daughters' college tuition, or maybe even dinner or rent in another month or two) is because a bunch of entitled spoiled little cowards have stolen my book rather than bought it. If I see something I want, say-an iPad, I think: I WANT THAT IPAD and then I look in my bank account and realize people like me can't afford iPads. That's how IMMATURE FIVE-YEAR-OLDS THINK.Īs a forty-year-old (and as a twenty-year-old and the thirty-year-old, for that matter) I'm a little more mature. See, as a five-year-old, my line of thinking was selfish and immature. Plus, I never forgot that day when I was five and I stole a few pieces of that pick-your-own candy from the grocery store and my father saw me with it when we were loading the car and he took me back in and made me give it back to the manager and apologize. I knew kids (and adults) who shoplifted in my life. I dare you to steal it from a shelf in a store. My first thoughts: Thanks a million, cowardly thieving people.

I'd estimate that over the last 18 months since some pirate made that horrible homemade copy of my book (by the way, dork, you skipped some pages and can't scan worth a crap) there have been at least three times that number of illegal downloads of my book. If I do the math right, that's dinner for my kids for about 8-12 months. This morning, thanks to some really smart person on Twitter who tweeted a link to a free copy of my book, I found a site that had 8 illegal copies of my book which boasted about 800 downloads. Regardless of format, authors work damn hard.) And for the record, no, I do not think all ebooks should cost a dollar. I buy ebooks the same as I buy paper books. I am a complete geek and love the idea of technology that allows me to read on my little ereader. Also-this isn't a discussion about ebooks. I am talking about illegal downloads of copyrighted material. I'm not sure if I'm all that happy about that, but that is NOT the type of thing I'm talking about. There ARE books out there in the public domain that you can get for free. (Before we start I want to define 'downloading a book for free.' I'm talking about modern copyrighted material.

Pirate fonts no cussin no thievin