Reactions on discovering that your book is pirated in Mumbai
John Battelle, Boing Boing band-manager and author of the kick-ass book The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, recounts his feelings upon discovering that pirate editions of his books are being sold in traffic from wandering vendors in Mumbai:...[H]ow cool is it that The Search is a street bestseller in Mumbai?! Do I care about the piracy? No. No, no no. I care that someone in Mumbai cared enough to rip it off, and that someone there might be reading my stuff. That is just cool. Commercial markets always follow the free, or, well, the pirates in this case. Always.Link
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