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Re: IDL PDF Book No Longer Available [message #60042 is a reply to message #60039]

Fri, 25 April 2008 10:14

Jean H.
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Registered: July 2006

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David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Odd that we were talking about stealing books yesterday.
>
> This morning I learned that a French bookseller has
> purchased a single copy of my PDF book and is selling it
> on their web site (for about three times my price).
>
> I am afraid I have had to discontinue selling the PDF
> version of the book until I figure out what to do about
> this. Selling an electronic copy of the book was an
> experiment that involved a great deal of financial
> exposure on my part. I was worried something like this
> might happen. (Although, frankly, I didn't expect it
> from a bookseller. Blame it on naivety, I guess.)
>
> Stealing people's intellectual property turns out to
> have bad karma for everyone.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

sad...

we have the PDF version in our lab... we use it for about 10% at most of
its content (good book though!) and we would likely never have bought
the paper version... so at least, by making it available, you do get
more sales!

For your problem, look where the bookseller's website is hosted. You
could take action in this country too, which is likely the US.

here is the french law on copyrights.. (in french, of course):
http://www.copyrightfrance.com/hypertext/le_3_3.htm
On this website, they say that most problems are resolved off-court, by
paying a compensation and/or stopping the infraction. You may just write
to your bookseller, send him the french law along which talks about up
to 300 000 Euros of penalties and 3 years of jails... it might be enough
to scare the guy!

Jean

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		Re: IDL PDF Book No Longer Available By: David Fanning on Fri, 25 April 2008 12:32
		Re: IDL PDF Book No Longer Available By: R.G. Stockwell on Fri, 25 April 2008 11:43
		Re: IDL PDF Book No Longer Available By: Jean H. on Fri, 25 April 2008 10:14
		Re: IDL PDF Book No Longer Available By: Ryan. on Fri, 25 April 2008 07:47
		Re: IDL PDF Book No Longer Available By: David Fanning on Fri, 25 April 2008 07:41
		Re: IDL PDF Book No Longer Available By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 25 April 2008 07:40
		Re: IDL PDF Book No Longer Available By: Conor on Fri, 25 April 2008 07:35

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