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I'm just guessing, but what probably happens here is that the authors don't get too much money per sold copy anyway, and the benefit of being an author of a ver
by sz4kerto 13y ago
I'm just guessing, but what probably happens here is that the authors don't get too much money per sold copy anyway, and the benefit of being an author of a very popular book is probably higher than of collecting the royalties for a few sold copies.
- chid 13y agoTheir target audience would generally also have a subscription to Springer.
- drunkenmasta 13y agoSeems to me like they are trying to get libgen into the spotlight so it might be shutdown. Remember library.nu? "If you want to steal the text, it's pretty easy to find an illegal copy, but you can get a nice illegal copy from LibGen. There's little risk in stealing stuff off the internet,"
- nisa 13y agoIt looks like they implemented some countermeasures. There is an I2P service for the site and you can download torrents of the content: ftp://libgen.org/repository_torrent/
- personlurking 13y agoI can think of Brazilian author Paulo Coelho and the makers of Game of Thrones as people who were happy to know their stuff is being pirated a lot.
- sz4kerto 13y agoYou can't steal Paulo Coelho, it comes after you even if you don't want it.
- personlurking 13y agoNot to get too off topic but there's a joke in Brazil that all his translators are better writers than he is, thus he sells well internationally.