Another year older…
Oct. 31st, 2009 12:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesHaving a good day. The weather has decided to give me a birthday present and is the epitome of autumn. A light mist, a slight drizzle, warm for the time of year (16 degrees C) and the colours are glorious. To treat myself, I drove 10 miles to the McDonalds and had a double sausage egg mcmuffin – and later I have raspberry cheesecake. One thing a birthday should always include is cake.
I had the best ecard EVER from ZA Maxfield (Thank you dear!) and I’m sharing it with you, I was crying laughing when reading it.
What a birthday shouldn’t include though is accusations of e-piracy, talking of sharing…. I had this charming missive waiting for me (emailed 3 times) from Love You Divine regarding a recent review of one of their books on Speak Its Name.
As the Publisher of loveyoudivine Alterotica, this post concerns me greatly. Since neither myself nor the author requested a review for this title from you, and you plainly state that you acquired this copy for free, we consider this Ebook Piracy.
We take Ebook Piracy very seriously, and so do our friends at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, otherwise known as the FBI in the United States of America. I'm also quite concerned that Erastes believes that this is a petty matter and that a 'fits all' disclaimer can dissuade me from my sworn responsibility to protect the company's assets, as well as those of my authors.
The very morning, I have printed this Weblog page and sent a copy to our contact at the FBI via registered mail. I suspect other authors you review will be equally interested as the FBI in what appears to be your flagrant disregard for their copyrights, also.
What annoys me is that publisher got the entirely wrong end of the stick, and reported me to the FBI(!) (how long will they take to get here, do you think? Will I have time to finish my cheesecake?) without discussing the matter with me first. The disclaimer clearly says that if I haven't received a free copy for review from the author or publisher, then I either BOUGHT IT or got it from the library. Sheesh. I replied, as politely as I could, explaining this, and explained that when I buy an ebook - of COURSE I have to pass it on to the reviewer, but I am a bloody professional after all—with a history of fighting piracy—and I don’t read the book concerned, and I delete the file from my PC. I can’t do more than that, can I?
How else does she expect me to pass books to reviewers?
Anyway, if I disappear off the face of the earth, you know where I am. Forward any further pressies to Guantanamo Bay.
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Date: 2009-10-31 12:46 pm (UTC). . . But what the fuck at the FBI thing. Dude, what?! I hope this gets resolved nicely. I don't want you to go to Guantanamo Bay! >_<;;
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Date: 2009-10-31 12:48 pm (UTC)How pathetic of the publisher. Contol issues, anyone?
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Date: 2009-10-31 12:48 pm (UTC)I know! Orange is NOT my colour!
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Date: 2009-10-31 12:48 pm (UTC)*Cough*
Just always keep a file with you from now on. Just in case.
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Date: 2009-10-31 12:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-10-31 12:50 pm (UTC)In the cake!!!
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Date: 2009-10-31 12:51 pm (UTC)Thanks! I know where to come when the MIB come to call!
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Date: 2009-10-31 12:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-31 12:57 pm (UTC)LOL
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Date: 2009-10-31 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-31 01:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-31 01:12 pm (UTC)Happy birthday, sausage. :)
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Date: 2009-10-31 01:14 pm (UTC)Thank you, dear!
:)
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Date: 2009-10-31 01:16 pm (UTC)Does this also mean that if I bought a book and then lent it to a friend because I'm nice, she'd come after me with a lawsuit?
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Date: 2009-10-31 01:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-31 01:22 pm (UTC)(Happy birthday!)
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Date: 2009-10-31 01:49 pm (UTC)And wow -- we only get to review books when the author or publisher requests it? That's an interesting perspective.
I wonder where one goes to swear in as a publisher. My town clerk doesn't seem to know the procedure...
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Date: 2009-10-31 01:52 pm (UTC):)
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Date: 2009-10-31 01:53 pm (UTC)Couldn't have, I dunno, acted like adults and emailed you for clarification first if they had a concern. No, that would that be too sensible, and not as much fun as getting their knickers in a twist and calling in the G-men.
Happy birthday!
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Date: 2009-10-31 01:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-31 03:13 pm (UTC)thank you!
Date: 2009-10-31 03:15 pm (UTC)I suppose this means that if I were to go into America in the future, I'd get turned away, like Cat Stevens. *sobs*
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Date: 2009-10-31 03:15 pm (UTC)And, honestly! I boggle. They go after you with a hammer for printing a very positive review which they should be pleased about? Just because they haven't read the disclaimer right? Why is our genre so full of kneejerk condemnation? :(
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Date: 2009-10-31 03:16 pm (UTC)Perhaps I should write to them and explain that I bought the book, but offer them an additional 20cents in lieu of the royalty the publisher thinks she lost out on?