Every now and then the monumental stupidity of the publishing industry (and its lawyers) gets under my skin. Take the latest example: Christopher Paolini's book "Inheritance", the final part of the Inheritance cycle (originally a trilogy).
The final book has taken some time to come out, and my wife and I were eagerly awaiting the audio book release today. It may be released in the USA, and I can buy it on the Kindle, but not in audiobook form. Idiots!So now the race is on: do I find it on the file file sharing networks before the sluggards in the audiobook publishing industry decide to change their minds and take my money? Watch this space. If I get an "illegal" copy before I can buy it legitimately, why should I bother when the "legal" copy becomes available? After all, the publishing industry is booming, just like the rest of the economy.Update 6.30pm: I found the epub version of the book on both BitTorrent and eMule. So much for that. The audio books shouldn't be much longer.
Update Wed: The publishers won! I have to pay double, but at least I can listen to the books. I'm glad I was wrong ;-)
2 comments:
They are obviously making far too much money to worry about small fry like the rest of the world
Lucky you. I live in Finland and this is also a country where a lot of titles are not available for download from Audible. As a law-abiding citizen, I hate illegal downloading but the publishers have practically forced me to download the audiobook from a torrent site.
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