Anonymous Patron writes “In the virtual stacks, pirated books find readers While the music industry’s effort to quash the trading of pirated songs over the Internet has attracted far more headlines, the unauthorized sharing of digitized books is proliferating in newsgroups, over peer-to-peer networks and in chat rooms.
The activity is all the more striking because making a book available online is as cumbersome as ripping a CD is effortless. Each page must be scanned, run through optical character-recognition software and proofread before the complete work is uploaded to a network or transferred directly to a recipient.”
O’Neil. The Iceman Cometh. Tomorrow.
Where around the web would there be texts of the O’Neil play
The Iceman Cometh
or the Eugene O’Neil short story
Tomorrow
?…
I hate subjects
A couple of comments:
Yes, it is a time consuming process to scan in a book, but it is well worth it. You also get the chance to read the book as you scan it in, making things a bit more productive.
There are generally two camps of people in this world. Those that are after expensive certification, technical, or school related books and those that are after fiction books.