FEEL like reading Australian author Colleen McCullough’s Thorn Birds , but don’t want to pay for a copy?
Then just hop onto a site like Wattpad.com and the book is available free as an electronic download. While this might be a bonus for readers, it is a disaster for authors, who get no royalties from the downloads.
Several other titles by McCullough, one of the most successful romance writers, are also available online, much to the horror of her literary agent, Capel & Land, which was stunned to learn of the pirate copies.
“I can’t believe Col would licence such a thing,” Georgina Capel said.
Like the music industry, which has fought and partly won the battle over free music downloads from sites like Kazaa and Limewire, the publishing industry is about to face a similar struggle with piracy as electronic books become a reality.
For full article, please see Brisbane Times.
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