try bookyap.com

yes there is. It’s called Rapidshare.
And MegaUpload.
and PirateBay.

The internet’s transformed into a virtual library free for the pillaging.

Sigh

I ahve used Netflix several times – they look good to me, anyways whenever i tried to find something – they never failed to help… which means a lot…

I have to say that I’ve never bought as many books — both new and (for the out-of-print books) used.

Here’s how it goes: I read a book I go flipping crazy over. I blog about it, exposing its title to all my readers. Then I go out and buy a copy, maybe two. One goes on my shelf ’cause it’s too precious a book to not have up there. The other one — plus the original book I first read — go up onto trading sites or get mailed directly to my friends, who follow this same pattern that I do. All of these sites allow for reviews; people can see me raving about the book in a (hopefully) thoughtful manner that will entice others to read.

This creates BUZZ. Maybe only among ten people, but if six of those ten people go out and buy the book themselves, or go and buy the author’s backlist or rush out for a new release the day it drops, those are six (or more) sales that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.

It seems counter-intuitive at first glance. But among my circle, we’re all buying more new books and supporting an increasingly wider circle of authors, many of whom are midlist or struggling to get there.

I’d say that is a bigger help than Starbucks selling Mitch Albom any day.

It’s as if someone sold their 1976 camaro and Chevrolet felt entitled to a cut. (This sort of thinking would make yard sales a real hassle.) The difference, of course, is that since a book does not necessarily deteriorate as quickly as something such as a car, perhaps it retains more of its initial monetary value. Regardless, multinational publishers feeling entitled to a kickback whenever one of their books winds up in a Church sale just sounds greedy.