This is becoming something of a habit. I’ve just found my interpretation of the Hexagrams of the Book of Changes for sale as a Kindle Edition on Amazon for £6.57. Needless to say, it wasn’t me who put it there. Please don’t buy this book. It’s available for free, from my Website here. I’ll be making sure Amazon take it down as soon as possible. If you have already bought it, please don’t worry. It will eventually disappear from your Kindle of its own accord and your account will be refunded by Amazon.
As with all Kindle titles from unknown authors do please check the preview content before paying. You can usually tell if it’s pirated by the standard of the formatting. Pirates take no interest in formatting. They simply cut and paste from the source text and the result is always sloppy. A bona fide author will always take more care with presentation.
I do not publish my work on the Kindle Marketplace. If you find it there, it’s been cut and paste pirated and the alarm bells are most likely already ringing because I do keep an eye on things, having fallen foul of those pesky Kindle-pirates before.
If you are the pirate – desist. You’re self-evidently and very seriously out of Tao, and anyone who knows their Book of Changes will tell you that’s not a thing to be taken lightly – they’re also likely to give you a wide berth in order to avoid the risk of getting caught up in collateral damage. So, don’t be a clown, take it down.
For those of you who don’t know me, all my work is free and (mostly) available from Feedbooks.
Greetings. None of the links to your hexagrams book, that I can find, in fact work (including the ones accessible at the link above and the one elsewhere on your blog to what appears to be to a nonpublic dropbox link).
Perhaps you could update the links? or point me to a page with the working link? I am interested in your book and would like to download an unplagiarized version.
Good luck with this blog, it is too is interesting. As an erstwhile blogger, it appears that when someone plagiarizes your blog itself then you will have in fact met your 15 minutes of fame. Best.
HI there, thanks. Yes, looks like I’m having problems with my Dropbox links. Not for the first time either. I’ll take a look at that. In the mean time if you want to mail me privately at m_graeme@yahoo.co.uk I’ll be happy to attach a copy by return. Thanks for your interest.
Regards
Michael