There is a discussion on Facebook about a site that is offering people's books for download free. We're not talking about older books that have been around and probably run through the bulk of their sales. Authors are finding their books that have just been released on these sites. No one is posting the site, I don't blame them, and I won't either. YOU know if you've been downloading books for free though.
This reminds me of when they started offering downloaded music and people thought they were "clever" because they were getting music free. This isn't right, folks. I know some of us have limited funds and books, even some ebooks, can be expensive, but taking a person's work for free is just plain theft. It's the same thing as me finding out you're not home and forgot to lock your front door, so I go in and clean out your refrigerator because I can. It's the same as your neighbor finding a way to tap into your cable or whatever and getting internet, phone and TV services free while you pay the bill.
If you want to read books and your money is seriously limited, there are things you can do:
1. Ask your local library to order the books.
2. Many authors give away free books all of the time.
Enter their drawings or whatever they're doing.
3. Borrow books from friends you know who buy them.
4. Many of the book publishers and different groups have
ways of helping you get some books. Ask them.
5. Join one of the many online groups and see if there is
someone there who will share with you or give you some
books free. That doesn't get the author a sale, but
someone paid for the book at one point.
Please don't take free books from any site "just because you can." Most of these authors don't make that much money to begin with. Don't drive them out of the business just so you can put something over on someone.
Besides, it's just not fair.
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