4 Comments on "why is it impossible to find the ebook of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson?"
Khephran said on Mar 30th, 2010 at 3:29 PM:
That book sucks, trust me. they didn’t put it on because nobody likes it.
Paul L said on Apr 2nd, 2010 at 1:32 AM:
It’s a recent book, so it is under copyright protection. Unless Ms. Anderson puts it online somewhere for free, or your local library has an e-book version available for download, you are probably out of luck.
If your local library does not have a paper copy, see if you can get it from another library through inter-library loan.
Alice said on Apr 3rd, 2010 at 5:56 PM:
It may not be available yet in ebook form. Check here to see if it is:.
Herschel said on Apr 4th, 2010 at 12:28 PM:
Several web sites offer online full-texts of books that are out of copyright, e.g..
However, aside from the copyright owner, which is almost always the author or their publisher, ANYONE who posts the text of these books online is violating both the U.S. and the International Copyright laws, infringing on Intellectual Property, and can be fined and jailed for it. (In general, anything first published within the last 52 years in the U.S. will still be in copyright. When the law was changed, it became copyright duration matched the rest of the work, i.e. the author’s/copyright owner’s lifetime plus 50 years.)
Writers make a living by creating their work. To read or use it without paying for it, is STEALING, pure and simple.
If the work is valuable enough to read, it should be paid for
That book sucks, trust me. they didn’t put it on because nobody likes it.
It’s a recent book, so it is under copyright protection. Unless Ms. Anderson puts it online somewhere for free, or your local library has an e-book version available for download, you are probably out of luck.
If your local library does not have a paper copy, see if you can get it from another library through inter-library loan.
It may not be available yet in ebook form. Check here to see if it is:.
Several web sites offer online full-texts of books that are out of copyright, e.g..
However, aside from the copyright owner, which is almost always the author or their publisher, ANYONE who posts the text of these books online is violating both the U.S. and the International Copyright laws, infringing on Intellectual Property, and can be fined and jailed for it. (In general, anything first published within the last 52 years in the U.S. will still be in copyright. When the law was changed, it became copyright duration matched the rest of the work, i.e. the author’s/copyright owner’s lifetime plus 50 years.)
Writers make a living by creating their work. To read or use it without paying for it, is STEALING, pure and simple.
If the work is valuable enough to read, it should be paid for