E-Piracy

E-Piracy is a major issue in the publishing world. As a would-be author, I have yet to be affected by thievery of the product of my sweat, blood, and tears. Many of the published authors I love, however, are hit by this on a daily basis and it makes me sad. And not just because I would love to be a published author someday. Not even because I'm a bookseller. It's because I'm a book lover and would be devastated if publishers closed their doors for good because there just wasn't any money in it for them anymore.

Can you imagine that? A world where books no longer exist. And I don't mean physical copies of books, but electronic ones too. As a bibliophile, the thought makes me want to curl into a ball and cry for a week - no, more like a month.

Author Jeaniene Frost wrote a really great post about E-Piracy on the Deadline Dames blog. It's an interesting read for everyone and I would love if more people came out against the theft of products every day. And if you're brave enough to read the post all the way to the end, Jeaniene lets you know how to get in on winning a free, legal copy of her first Night Huntress World books, First Drop of Crimson.