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.
