I thought it a bit odd, but the FFBoCR was found on the LuLu.com website for free. Did I miss something along the way? Isn't it odd that Ian would have given this one away??? Any info. regarding this would be appreciated.

That doesn't sound right at all
Someone better tell him

I also noticed, free at LULU, is the 150 page PDF of Harvey Nerzof's online reviews. Now that's gotta be a fun read.

I can see Rowland maybe selling the paperbcks at $9 each,he'd sell a kajillion of them...but what's the point of free DL's? Mysterious.

I just sent Ian a note regarding Full Facts.

get 'em while they're HOT!

Great news!!

It's a pirate copy
Don't go there

What?? I thought Lulu.com was an official publishing company??

Yes, Ian has indicated that it is a pirate copy. He IS trying to do something about it.

It is, but the person who published it there is not Ian.

What we have here is a thief posing as Ian trying to devalue his work, and steal money from him. Despicable!

Ian and LuLu are victims.

That is truly disgusting - but it is also sad to see Lulu is now getting to be another ebay lawless land zone.

I wouldn't think it was LULU's fault. Anyone can place a document on their site. Like Tony stated.

John

The should integrate security measures to avoid that...and that fast!

It has been removed.

#@%&**#@ !

Downloaded. Unopened, waiting for verdict. Deleted.

#$@!

I was hoping it was a marketing ploy for the next edition or something.

It should be pretty easy to trace who mounted it.

Hi everyone. I was first notified a few months ago that someone was offering a pirate copy of my book over on the lulu site. I did try to do something about getting it removed, but didn't get any joy. I didn't pursue it any further for a while, being distracted by small matters like relocating to my new apartment. Recently, several people wrote to me again to let me know about the problem, and this time I was able to get some help sorting it out. The offending listings have now been taken down, and the people at lulu seem pretty good: very apologetic about the pirate copy, very aggressive stance against copyright violation or piracy.

According to information I have received from lulu, the person selling this pirate copy was called 'Evgeny Shaverin' and may be based in Israel. I have not taken steps to verify this information; it may not be correct; it may be the bad guy using someone else's name, like when spammers use an innocent email address as the 'from' address; it may even be a pseudonym. I'd love to find out the actual perpetrator and have a discussion with him about his motives.

Even though the lulu listings have now (at last) been removed, this is of course not the end of the problem. The person who did this went to enough time and trouble to scan my book and make it into a downloadable file. At least a few of these were downloaded from the lulu site. The perpetrator knows that since this file can be instantly copied and forwarded with a single mouse click, the file he has put out there will probably be copied many times, therefore depriving me of potential revenue. Whoever did this probably feels really smug, satisfied and clever about having done this, and is probably happy that there's nothing I can do about it.

I offer three observations about this. (1) The person who did it may be feeling smug, but I think I'd rather have my life than his. I created the book and had whatever talent was needed to write it. All he can do is copy, and cheat, and steal. I think I've got the better deal, and the nicer life. (2) The perpetrator obviously doesn't know about the law of karma. If you do bad things, bad things will happen to you. There's no escape. (3) I sometimes get asked if I could reprint 'Sense of Touch' or publish the new mentalism book that I've had ready for years. My response? First of all, someone needs to find a way to get rid of the piracy problem. Because until they do, it's just not worth it for a small operator like me to go to the time and trouble of publishing stuff, since it gets ripped off the very next day. So whoever did this isn't just hurting me (or trying to), he's hurting anyone who would like new material to be published.

That's really dissapointing.