Dear CMcD
I fully understand where you are coming from and I have a certain amount of
sympathy for your argument.
Believe me, I never intended to go beyond the first edition but before
embarking on a second reprint it was
decided to make “Advanced Soaring Made Easy” an all encompassing book on
gliding. The third edition
was conceived when it became clear that the additional topics covered in the
German version of the book
would lift the level of information once again. In other words, later editions
are the result of an ever deeper
immersion into the subject. You first crawl before you learn to walk, don’t you?
I must say that I’m very disappointed about your veiled accusition that the
latest version is a “bug fix”. The
third edition contains almost 100 additional pages. This is mainly due to the
inclusion of mountain soaring
techniques, various other amendments and additional meteorological information.
Apart from fixing the odd
spelling (or punctuation) error it was not necessary to incorporate a single
correction.
Because you have purchased the first two editions I will now grant you a
discount in case you want to have
the latest version as well.
Kind regards
Bernard
> On 16 Mar 2015, at 9:26 am, DMcD <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> Multiple warnings about cyber piracy were received with one fellow author
> advising that - for exactly this reason - he will never publish an e-book
> again.
>
> The issue of piracy and copyright on ebooks etc. is interesting,
> especially with technical manuals.
>
> Last year, I bought the ebook version of a hardback book I'd bought a
> few months before just so I could carry it overseas on an iPad. While
> the ebook version was cheaper than the hardback, I still resented the
> fact that I had paid for the same thing twice. I would not have felt
> particularly guilty if I'd "illegally" downloaded the ebook version
> since I'd already paid the author for his work.
>
> Ditto with a lot of recorded music. I bought the 12" LPs, sometimes
> twice or more and then bought the CD and then the remastered version…
> all at full price. I'd already paid the writer and musicians for the
> right to play the recording several times over and paying again for
> exactly the same thing on a different substrate seems wrong in some
> way. If I own a CD or LP of a recording, I don't feel too guilty or
> unscrupulous about downloading an electronic version… after all, I can
> always transfer my own CD if I can find a CD reader any more.
>
> iTunes deals with this fairly well since once you have paid for a
> recording, you can re-download multiple times but there was an
> interesting court case somewhere last year where someone wanted the
> right to give, donate or bequeath their music or ebook library to
> someone else… and why not? I can give my solid library books away, why
> not an ebook or recording?
>
> With technical manuals, especially software, there is often an update
> every five minutes. Often these are minor revisions, correcting errors
> or revising for OS changes or adding things that the writer omitted in
> earlier versions. It's possible with ebooks to allow purchasers to
> download revised or later editions for free or at reduced cost.
> Somehow this does not happen.
>
>>> Although the prime motivation for writing this book was to combat the high
>>> drop out rate in our sport I’m very reluctant to open the door for
>>> unscrupulous cyber thieves.
>
> So how about opening the door a little to folk who have already
> purchased the first one or two versions of the book at full price and
> who may not want to pay the full price for an "upgrade" or bug fix?
> :-)
>
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