art piracy

"When it comes to my own work, I've long embraced piracy. I don't see piracy as any different than a friend borrowing a book from a friend, or a single book making its way through a household or a school classroom. To me, the value is in being read. The danger is in losing an audience."

— Hugh Howey

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Follow Your Curiosity

"People Are Going To Steal Your Book: The current generation is used to open access, not restricted ownership. Someone is going to gank your book. They're gonna gank the unmerciful fuck out of it. And you're either going to be mad about it and flail or you're going to find a way to deal and, in a perfect world, make it work for you."

— Chuck Wendig

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"Piracy, good or bad, is not theft. It is perhaps a kind of parasitism? Combat it where you can, find value in it where you can't."

— Chuck Wendig

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