a:59:{s:15:"comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:14:"comment_author";s:12:"David Hewson";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:28:"david.hewson@davidhewson.com";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:0:"";s:15:"comment_content";s:817:"Where do I say I'm against libraries? I support libraries all the time with unpaid visits and talks. 

As to the rest.. you've lost me. Anyone who doesn't 'have the stomach to wade through agents and publishers' isn't trying to get into this business because that's how it works. Not by uploading an unedited Word file to Kindle. 

And who is it who 'never had a chance to show their work to anyone'? The rules are the same for everybody in this business. 

It took me years to get published. I know best-selling authors who wrote 30 books before they got onto the shelves. That's what it often takes.

A situation where something that should be paid for gets stolen right left and centre won't 'grow the writing community'. It will just ensure that good writers will give up because they can't make a living.";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:4:"2634";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"1";s:7:"user_ip";s:14:"87.112.142.222";s:10:"user_agent";s:128:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.107 Safari/534.13";s:8:"referrer";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:4:"blog";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:9:"user_role";s:13:"administrator";s:21:"akismet_comment_nonce";s:6:"passed";s:12:"POST_comment";s:817:"Where do I say I'm against libraries? I support libraries all the time with unpaid visits and talks. 

As to the rest.. you've lost me. Anyone who doesn't 'have the stomach to wade through agents and publishers' isn't trying to get into this business because that's how it works. Not by uploading an unedited Word file to Kindle. 

And who is it who 'never had a chance to show their work to anyone'? The rules are the same for everybody in this business. 

It took me years to get published. I know best-selling authors who wrote 30 books before they got onto the shelves. That's what it often takes.

A situation where something that should be paid for gets stolen right left and centre won't 'grow the writing community'. It will just ensure that good writers will give up because they can't make a living.";s:11:"POST_submit";s:12:"Post Comment";s:20:"POST_comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:19:"POST_comment_parent";s:4:"2634";s:32:"POST__wp_unfiltered_html_comment";s:10:"895fd01b1b";s:26:"POST_akismet_comment_nonce";s:10:"8da157ce04";s:15:"SERVER_SOFTWARE";s:79:"Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4";s:11:"REQUEST_URI";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:14:"CONTENT_LENGTH";s:4:"1022";s:12:"CONTENT_TYPE";s:33:"application/x-www-form-urlencoded";s:13:"DOCUMENT_ROOT";s:42:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com";s:17:"GATEWAY_INTERFACE";s:7:"CGI/1.1";s:11:"HTTP_ACCEPT";s:90:"application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";s:19:"HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET";s:30:"ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING";s:17:"gzip,deflate,sdch";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:26:"en-GB,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6";s:18:"HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL";s:9:"max-age=0";s:15:"HTTP_CONNECTION";s:10:"keep-alive";s:11:"HTTP_COOKIE";s:0:"";s:9:"HTTP_HOST";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"HTTP_ORIGIN";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:12:"HTTP_REFERER";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:15:"HTTP_USER_AGENT";s:128:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.107 Safari/534.13";s:4:"PATH";s:13:"/bin:/usr/bin";s:12:"QUERY_STRING";s:0:"";s:15:"REDIRECT_STATUS";s:3:"200";s:11:"REMOTE_ADDR";s:14:"87.112.142.222";s:11:"REMOTE_PORT";s:5:"53528";s:14:"REQUEST_METHOD";s:4:"POST";s:15:"SCRIPT_FILENAME";s:63:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SCRIPT_NAME";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SERVER_ADDR";s:14:"67.225.237.100";s:12:"SERVER_ADMIN";s:37:"webmaster@davidhewson.davidhewson.net";s:11:"SERVER_NAME";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"SERVER_PORT";s:2:"80";s:15:"SERVER_PROTOCOL";s:8:"HTTP/1.1";s:16:"SERVER_SIGNATURE";s:133:"<address>Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at davidhewson.com Port 80</address>
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