Hey i was just wondering, does anybodyknow where i can find a place to download ebooks for free?
Well to put it more specifically The demonata seires by darren shan?
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2007-12-14 16:36:04 · 6 answers · asked by Datboi 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Look you. Authors work. They write. They get paid for what they write. If you admire someone - why would you want to steal from them? That is like telling your best friend - I like you but I'm going to steal your plasma TV as soon as your family goes out for dinner. It's rude. It's illegal. Thanks to people like YOU who go about stealing from authors, the Writers Guild is currently on strike and we can't watch new episides of The Colbert Report and all our other favorite shows. Stop stealing. I love Louis Vuitton luggage. Does that give me the right to walk into his shop on 5th Avenue and help myself to a ten thousand dollar steamer trunk? Hell no. It means if I WANT one I have the option of buying it. Cool concept huh? Well the same goes with books. Unless you are willing to wait until 70 years after the author is dead, you will have to either buy the book or use the library. The author or his estate holds the copyrights and offers the books for sale to you and any other book lovers. Get used to the idea now - nothing in life is free. Stealing is wrong. Now stop asking people to be accomplices in your theft.
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2007-12-14 16:55:19 · answer #1 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
You can't download that - legally. However, this site http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/ has a lot of wonderful, public domain books that can be either read online or downloaded.
My advice: buy the books or borrow them from the library, and check out the classics on Gutenberg! I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at the quality and quantity of works you can find there. I truly think that nothing can beat some of the classics of literature.
Have you read Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes? You'll find it there. How about the works of Edgar Allan Poe or Frankenstein by Mary Shelley or Dracula by Bram Stoker or The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux? They are all there....just think: a wealth of literature right at your fingertips!
2007-12-14 20:08:42 · answer #2 · answered by ck1 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Used bookstores are usually reasonable in price. Also, you are not only helping a (for most fiction writers) starving artist forced to work another job they don't really enjoy during the day hours, but you are ALSO helping a (for most used bookstores) starving local business in a beautiful trade. Plus you can trade in old books, and get that human connection with the owners, build rapport and chat about books.
I am both a musician and writer and I guess I've never gotten as peeved about the DLing thing as, say, Lars from Metallica, but the folks on here are kind of right whether or not we like to admit it. It is a form of stealing based on the set of laws of ownership in this country. Music and authorship are businesses to some degree (the less important degree, but a degree nonetheless), and the respectful thing to do would be to purchase things they create.
Think of it as an online art fair. Don't run off from someone's booth with a metal sculpture you didn't pay for! lol.
You just have to think of it as being kind of selfish, not saying this defines your personality, but the act itself. Its like being the fan of a music group, but once they have a more mainstream audience denying them. If you truly appreciate what a music group is doing, don't you want them to achieve their dreams? Well in America, unfortunately, money is the prevailing medium of dream-achieving. And they need your support.
2007-12-15 05:36:51 · answer #3 · answered by all work and no play 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Persiphone is right. Most authors have worked hard to create something they hope you will like. They deserve to get paiud. Only you can give them a pay day. Don't try to steal it from them.
2007-12-14 19:39:00 · answer #4 · answered by Artful 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Look you. Authors work. They write. They get paid for what they write. If you admire someone - why would you want to steal from them? That is like telling your best friend - I like you but I'm going to steal your plasma TV as soon as your family goes out for dinner. It's rude. It's illegal.
So don't steal from authors. They spend alot of time writing and putting a book(s) in place for you to read. Not steal.
2007-12-15 01:30:31 · answer #5 · answered by Twilight Luver!!! 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I think it would be more reasonable if you bought it or orded it online. :)
2007-12-14 16:42:43 · answer #6 · answered by Lois 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋