Legally speaking, I’d prefer if the pirated version wasn’t there, since it has some implications on copyright and IP. And I’ve attempted several times to get the site owner to remove it. But given that he seems fairly determined to ignore me (and that I don’t have a good way to track down the folks who are printing bootleg paperbacks in southeast Asia), let’s examine the implications of your entire book being “stolen” and distributed for free. Counterintuitively, recommendable books tend to benefit from piracy, since the folks who “steal” it will still end up recommending it to others who
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