Monday, June 30, 2008

Piracy-lovin’ librarians: How typical? Not very, as I see it—but read e-novelist Cornelia Amiri’s complaint

"We all love e-books because you can take that one download and send it to all your friendsâ€"so you have twenty of them instead of just one, and the publisher can’t track you down or do anything about it.” Did a librarian from Baytown, Texas, really say that at a "Sci-Fi Fantasy Convention" in Houston? If so, what’s the full context, and might she want to apologize? The quote comes to us by way of Cornelia Amiri, a fifty-one-year-old novelist with 5,580 friends on MySpace. I don’t know Corne