A Note About ARCs
A NOTE ABOUT ARCs. This makes me sad, but I don’t know if I’m going to offer ARCs anymore and here’s why. A cardinal rule was broken–someone took the ebook and posted it online, which is a horrible thing to do. It’s pirating, and it’s NOT legal to distrube free copies. ARC ebooks were for ‘your eyes only’ which was exclicitly stated.
Guys, I’ve been thinking about how to handle this. I know who did it, and, yes, I could post their name and publically yell at this person, but that doesn’t fix the problem. Other authors have stopped giving eARCs all together. I really didn’t want to punish the good people because of a few bad folks, but this has happened more than once.
Distrubing ARCs is a lot of work and is a nice thing to do for fans who love my books and want to leave reviews, but when stuff like this happens it leaves me wondering if I should continue to offer them. So, I’m giving it another chance and changing the way my ARCs are done. Keep an eye out.
And if you see someone posting an author’s book online for free, tell them that they are a complete asshat and that copyright fines are freakin’ expensive (up to $250,000). If you’d like to see more info on copyright, please visit: http://www.copyright.gov.
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I'm sorry that person made that jackass choice. Too bad that the same way that reviewers can get white listed to receive digital review copies of books from certain publishers and authors, that there isn't a blacklist for people who have abused that privilege.
Too bad.. I wanted to have an ARC copy and review it.. But I understand if no authors wanted to give free because of some irresponsible ARC-privileged bookworms..
It's so sad that this continues to happen. Sharing the ARC is stealing from the author, plain and simple.
This is horrible. I have always felt priviledged when I receive an ARC and it would be so wrong to do something like this.
This is appalling to me. I have never personally received an ARC, but I faithfully read the reviews! How dare they take such a privilege and stomp all over it. SHAME!
Its a priveledge to have such talented writers trust you with their work...and ask for Your opinion and for you to have the audasity to i cnt even exspress the madness I have right now...I Love everybook i have read from H.M.WARD...and would consider it an Honor to have her add me to her list
