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A comment on John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been released. Parent comment

Re:John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been r... by barking on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @04:21AM (#4992262)
Once there's a pdf or other ebook available it'll be pirated. How that doesn't damage sales I'll never understand. The Lazarus (object pascal ide) book is only available in a physical book format for this reason.
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Re:John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been r... by spjwebster on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @04:42AM (#4992285)
It may well be pirated regardless:

http://www.themillions.com/2010/01/confessions-of-a-book-pir...

In another life I wrote technical books, which at the time were only available in physical formats. That didn't stop electronic versions of the more popular books from appearing on usenet.

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Re:John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been r... by barking on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @07:20AM (#4992482)
That's a good read. It's hard to understand the motivation of someone who's prepared to put in that many hours pirating a single book. It's seems a bit pathetic
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Re:John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been r... by Semaphor on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @06:12AM (#4992391)
> How that doesn't damage sales I'll never understand.

Because the people downloading it are not necessarily the same people who'd have bought it otherwise.

Plus exposure. I pirate a lot of stuff. At the same time I buy more books and music than anyone else I know.

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