His role in encouraging ebook piracy is incalculable, and so is the damage caused.

I can only hope that Kovid Goyal, the developer of Calibre, soon feels the full wrath of the US government. I trust you see what this means.Ĭalibre enables ebook piracy, and users of calibre are enabling it. Yes, 3 out of 4 ebook pirates prefer Calibre. Of the 4 distinct copies I found on The Pirate Bay, one was a PDF made with an Adobe Acrobat plugin, while the others were made with Calibre, the best free ebook library management and conversion tool. I was comparing all the different pirated copies of Joyland when I noticed something. I was going to explain how he has no effective control over the digital release of his novel he can only control whether readers pay for the copy.īut I have already written that post, so today I wanted to take a different angle on the story. Now, Mr King had decided not to release Joyland as an ebook (he wants you to buy the paper book in a bookstore, or Amazon), so I was all set to write a post showing the pointlessness of his decision. If you’ve been following the ebook news this past week then you’ve probably read about Joyland, Stephen King’s latest novel, and how it has already been pirated and released digitally. Three Out of Four eBook Pirates Prefer Calibre

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