Re: Illegal copies of your book

Posted by Gillian Densmore on
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I'll put this out their as I suspect a unpopular opinion. It's be been my unfortunate experience teachers want ridiculously expensive specialty books. The most egregious was some prof for a management class that thought it'd be a good idea to drop 700 dollars on a book. Most of the class except some brown-noser agreed. He did EVENtUALLY relent to do case-studies inlue of the book. IMO I got more out of  reading and writing about actually cases of successful and unsuccessful management from real life than a 700 dollar book
When people wonder why books get pirated. That's probably why.

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 6:03 PM Edward Angel <[hidden email]> wrote:
Yes. libgen is a mirror site for libgen.io that has everything on it. It gets taken down every once in a while. They lost a suit from the publishers but being located in Eastern Europe that doesn’t help. When I first went to the site, it asked me to turn off my add blocker so THEY could make some money. Then I looked at their donation tab and the only way to donate was via bitcoin or an Eastern European credit card.

Students tell me they all know about the site.

Ed
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On Jul 4, 2020, at 5:58 PM, Roger Frye <[hidden email]> wrote:

Ed,
FYI: The latest edition that I see on the Israeli version of the pirate site (libgen.is) is the 7th.
-Roger

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