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Old 15-02-2007, 12:41 AM posted to sci.bio.botany
Alan Meyer Alan Meyer is offline
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"Julie" wrote in message
ups.com...

As an information professional, I have a huge collection of E-books on
a host of subjects which have been appreciated as very useful and
informative by most of my clientele which includes Academicians,
Scientists, Research Scholars and Students.


Julie,

What your are doing is, of course, illegal in the United States.
However I don't know what the status of American or other
copyrights is in India. Perhaps it is legal there to ignore the
copyright and reproduce the works without payment to the
copyright holders.

I sympathize with Indian and other third world students, many
of whom have no way to get the hard currency needed to buy
these books from legal sources. In some ways I see what
you are doing as a service to them. But American or European
buyers who pay you for these books are violating the laws of
their countries.

I wish that weren't true. I wish there were other ways to fund
the huge costs of writing and publishing these books besides
selling them for $100 US or more each. But at the current
time, there aren't.

I'm curious to hear what other people think about this.

Alan