Are We About To Enter The Age of Book Piracy? 494
theodp writes "The speed with which the 4MB e-mail hoax purporting to be the new cookbook from the Naked Chef streaked across the Internet suggests to Slate that a new, disquieting era for the publishing world may be in sight. Indeed, the latest Harry Potter tale made the rounds on the Web just hours after the book went on sale, its 870 pages apparently scanned in and distributed by rabid fans. The old argument that no one likes reading on a computer has pretty much eroded. Just because publishing people can't conceive of book piracy doesn't mean it can't happen."
Solution. (Score:2, Funny)
BIG difference... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's copyright infringement (Score:5, Funny)
YOU PIRATE!!!
Re:It's copyright infringement (Score:3, Funny)
You see the effect all this piracy has had on you, you're even beginning to talk like like a salty brigand, now.
Harrrful, it be, harrr, Jim lad. Harrrr.
Re:Now it's getting pointless (Score:3, Funny)
You bastard!
I bought a solid state physics textbook back in my undergrad days--it cost more than an equivalent weight of silver bullion. I haven't weighed any of my other textbooks, but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't the only one worth its weight in silver....
30 minutes for a comic!!?!! (Score:4, Funny)
I finish the Sunday Non Sequitor in just under 18 minutes. If it takes someone thirty minutes, they need to switch to an easier one. Maybe Ziggy would be a better start. That one only takes me 5.