Author Lloyd Shepherd Engages Book Pirate

After getting a Google alert linking to a file sharing site Mobilism, in which a user was asking other users for a pirated copy of his book The English Monster, author Lloyd Shepherd decided to respond to the reader seeking the illicit material.

He explained that he was the author and asked the user to explain his behavior. Shepherd wrote: “Can it be that you’re offering to pay someone to create an ebook of the book I wrote? I’d be interested to hear your justification for this.

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