Particularly if the book is an ultra-mega best seller like Freakonomics? This audacious graduate student has tried exactly that, and lives to tell the tale:
If you don’t know that bullets can actually kill you, you can nonchalantly walk into a swarm of gunfire. Of course, you may be killed, just grazed, or damaged in some permanent manner, but that’s another issue.
So it was when I took my copy of a pirated edition of ‘Freakonomics‘ for Steven Levitt to sign. I bought it from a roadside seller on Moledina Road for 40 rupees. It was only much later, when several people said to me “You have some guts doing that”, that I realised the foolish audacity which I had demonstrated.
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Ramnath
Feb 3rd, 2007 at 1:56 am | #
I heard about something even more audacious. It seems a publisher in China asked Joseph Stiglitz to write an introduction for a pirated edition of his book on globalisation. Stiglitz was keen – atleast that’s what he said when he came to Chennai – but his original publisher was not.