Someone suggested this idea. No. Outright no.
I posted why on the CBO blog and I'll re-post that below. To prove a point: a small publisher in the United States offered a pdf of his comic. Three downloads purchased. At a comic event someone told him they had read the book online. He responded that he had no comics online and was then given a link to follow: one of the people who had purchased his pdf uploaded it to an illegal download site and it had been download 1,450 times. That is 1,450 lost sales. He gave up.
Do You Download or Upload Comics Illegally?
I was sent a link today to a site with illegal downloads of the books I produced for Fantagraphics/Eros with artists Art Wetherell and David Gordon.
In the space of a year one book was downloaded 34,831 times. That is 34,831 thefts of copyright and money from us as creators. Read and liked it? Did they buy copies? No.
Including just one other book downloaded with 60,881...that's 95,712 thefts.
To put that in perspective my percentage from these were they sales would be £478,560 and that is from just ONE site. Others exist and it must be remembered that these are sites run by criminals accepting copyright theft -they KNOW what they are doing as do the thieves downloading.
As I've just had a can of cold Heinz spaghetti for my main meal you can see why even 5% of that £478,560 would be welcome.
THIS IS WHY I ACCEPT NO EXCUSES FROM PEOPLE WHO ILLEGALLY UPLOAD BOOKS OR THOSE WHO DOWNLOAD THEM. YOU ARE THIEVES
I posted why on the CBO blog and I'll re-post that below. To prove a point: a small publisher in the United States offered a pdf of his comic. Three downloads purchased. At a comic event someone told him they had read the book online. He responded that he had no comics online and was then given a link to follow: one of the people who had purchased his pdf uploaded it to an illegal download site and it had been download 1,450 times. That is 1,450 lost sales. He gave up.
Do You Download or Upload Comics Illegally?
I was sent a link today to a site with illegal downloads of the books I produced for Fantagraphics/Eros with artists Art Wetherell and David Gordon.
In the space of a year one book was downloaded 34,831 times. That is 34,831 thefts of copyright and money from us as creators. Read and liked it? Did they buy copies? No.
Including just one other book downloaded with 60,881...that's 95,712 thefts.
To put that in perspective my percentage from these were they sales would be £478,560 and that is from just ONE site. Others exist and it must be remembered that these are sites run by criminals accepting copyright theft -they KNOW what they are doing as do the thieves downloading.
As I've just had a can of cold Heinz spaghetti for my main meal you can see why even 5% of that £478,560 would be welcome.
THIS IS WHY I ACCEPT NO EXCUSES FROM PEOPLE WHO ILLEGALLY UPLOAD BOOKS OR THOSE WHO DOWNLOAD THEM. YOU ARE THIEVES
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