Good question. I know it has already been pirated (more here), and some users already asked if "Fair Use" would apply if you downloaded the inofficial e-book if you also bought the hardcover version. I don't know the answer though ;(
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At J.K. Rowling's website, she has a FAQ with this specific question. There are NO e-book versions of ANY Harry Potter book that have been properly licensed and released. (Read: All Harry Potter e-books are illegal.)
I read the first article and it talks about the fact that children's ebooks are lagging behind adult oriented ebooks because of the fact that kids don't have readers. Completely understand that arguement. But that is not the case with Harry Potter. I would guess at least half of the books are bought by adults for adult. It also doesn't explain the lock on audible.com. That could be listened to by kids without problems. When I had foster kids we would listen to audio books every time we were in the car for more than 10 minutes.
I'll add my comments as well. Although some of you are eBook fanatics, the majority of the world doesn't use that technology. It's sort of like the old Tom Hanks movie, BIG, where he creates a reusable digital comic book (way ahead of its time), and they ask the question, "How are kids going to be able to afford this?" Granted...kids have PSPs and all sorts of gadgets...but they are not using those gadgets for things like reading. The e-book is still an idea probably 5-10 years ahead of its time...something I saw more likely with the advent of tablet PCs, but even those are disappearing. An eBook REALLY makes sense on a tablet PC. I'm a musician, and even music is struggling with this issue.
It's the future...it's where the future of music will be...but at $1200 per unit, not yet. And it SHOULD be on a tablet PC.
The other argument is that J.K. Rowling is entitled to her profit, as are the publishing companies. They would never sell enough copies of the eBook to justify the proofing and distribution costs, and they'll never be able to keep those same people from simply breaking copyright laws and sharing their eBooks.
Granted, the woman is the most wealthy female in the U.K. (PRIOR to HP6) and the book companies are "raking it in" with the largest 1 day book sale ever (over 6 million copies--250,000 books per hour). But this is capitalizism...love it or leave it.
Uploading your digital copy to any filesharing service including websites would be wrong. But if you take the time to scan and edit the book to a format you can read on your PPC... I just don't see who that hurts.
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The problem would be breach of copyright. Thankfully, there are some companies that allow you to use 2 copies of things, like software...Office, for example, gives you legal rights to use it on both your home computer and your laptop. But even music legally can't be used in two forms at the same time. For example...if you have your CDs in mp3 format, you legally shouldn't have them on your computer and on another device--even if you own the actual CD. And if you play the CD (i.e. it doesn't serve as solely an archive), then you're also breaking the law with an mp3 recording on your computer.
It's very similar to the wi-fi argument...it's clearly breaking the law, but the chance that anyone is actually going to enforce that law is unlikely.
The other problem with the scanning idea is that it is a HUGE investment of time. By the time you scanned and edited your book to bring with you on your PPC, you could probably read the book in its original format (and probably would while editing).
I think the book was released at midnight and by 10:00am there were scanned copies on the Internet.
I have to believe that if legal copies were available, the law-abiding would gladly pay for them.
I know nothing about distribution costs but I can't imagine them being that excessive.
Modern publishing means that the book already exists in electronic form -- how hard is it to package it with DRM or some other such copy protection and release it?
I just don't know.
But now instead of receiving something from e-book sales they're receiving nothing and the downloaders are feeling perfectly justified because they had no other recourse.
(Not my feelings.... but that is the sort of stuff I've been seeing out there on the Net.)
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The distribution streams exist. Audible has a petition that they are encouraging people to sign to show they would buy Harry Potter. I am sure ereader or mobipocket or any other the others companies would LOVE to have the opportunity to distribute. The creation of the book in ebook formats is so easy and cheap that that can not be a real reason.
Im sure if you own the book, then aslogn as your not letting someone else read it at the same time they couldnt do anything to you.
Not that theyre going to chase you down forhaving an illegal ebook. Maybe if you were letting people download it or somethingtough.
Be carefull when your downloading the " Half Blood Prince " ebooks, ive tried. Ive yet to find a REAL ONE. The only one i can find is a stupid fanbook one that some idiot wrote.
the stupid fake fanbook one starts off with harry and Dudley having a cola drinking contest and then peeing in a graveyard. Shouldnt be hard to spot as rubbish. ;)
So it seems im stuck dragging the brick around with me.
You can't have tried very hard if you still haven't found a real copy. I found one on a bittorrent site within ten minutes of reading that there were complete e-copies floating around out there. This was the day after it was released.
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