{"id":10534,"date":"2013-05-07T18:20:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T23:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=10534"},"modified":"2013-05-12T12:18:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T17:18:18","slug":"massive-science-fiction-piracy-at-bookos-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=10534","title":{"rendered":"Massive Science Fiction Piracy at BookOS.org"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good news, everyone! There’s a new website called BookOS<\/a> offering millions of free books to download!<\/p>\n

Bad news, everyone! It’s a pirate site that most likely hasn’t obtained any e-rights for any of the millions of copyrighted works they have available!<\/p>\n

Who are they pirating? Well, they have around a hundred works by Howard Waldrop that I know they haven’t bought e-rights for (because I asked him), and they have hundreds of works by:<\/p>\n

  • Gail Carriger<\/a>\n
  • Bil Crider<\/a>\n
  • Paul Di Filippo<\/a>\n
  • Harlan Ellison<\/a> (good thing they picked someone whose never been known to sue anyone, eh?)\n
  • Neil Gaiman<\/a>\n
  • Joe R. Lansdale<\/a>\n
  • Elizabeth Moon<\/a>\n
  • Michael Moorcock<\/a>\n
  • Jerry Pournelle<\/a>\n
  • Mike Resnick<\/a>\n
  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch<\/a>\n
  • Gene Wolfe<\/a>\n
  • Outgoing SFWA President John Scalzi<\/a>\n
  • Incoming SFWA President Steven Gould<\/a>\n<\/li>\n

    And that’s just a random handful of writers I know that I checked on (plus Harlan Ellison, whom I’ve met, and who I know has some good lawyers). I’m sure there are hundreds of others. <\/p>\n

    Perhaps the folks at SFWA might sit up and take notice. And if your work is being pirated, you might want to write support@bookos.org<\/a> and ask them to pull it down. <\/p>\n

    (Updated: Good news, everyone! Support@bookos.org wrote back to say the Waldrop has been removed, and now there’s a notice saying “Link deleted by legal owner.”) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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