ebookporn

If you are an author or an agent representing an author with an ebook (self published or not) you have the responsibility of understanding the business models your book is being distributed under no matter how complex or unique those terms may be. DRM, lending, and bundling are here to stay and are all more complex than can be learned from an angry tweet or skimming a blog post from another author who is equally uninformed.  I am constantly amazed by how many people are willing to argue authoritatively without any actual facts. ~ eP 

unboundunderground:

Recently, I wrote a post about what readers can and can’t do with ebooks and DRM, and so I feel obligated to pass on this bit of news. I’ve just become aware of a whole hooha over a site which was called Lendink run by a man named Dale Porter. There was a mess of writers out of sorts about piracy who harassed Mr. Porter into taking his site down. Readers can find the whole story here, and a big thanks to The Passive Voice for posting this. I want to make clear to readers exactly where the Unbound Underground stands on this kerfuffle, and it’s squarely in Mr. Porter’s corner.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m against piracy of every sort. But this was not a case of piracy, and was perfectly fair and legal to all writers, publishers and distributors. It’s pretty clear to anyone willing to look at the facts of this story that Mr. Porter was providing a really very useful service to readers and writers, and was entirely undeserving of the nasty harassment he has received at the hands of willfully ignorant writers.  What follows is a comment Dale Porter wrote to the TechDirt article. I hope readers will comment in support of Mr. Porter here, on TechDirt, on The Passive Voice, on all social media networks, or on any other website where this story can be found. And to all the writers who were bent out of shape enough to harass Mr. Porter, I offer this most sincere statement: “dick move, you tools.”