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The Pleasures chastisement the Damnably Poems, 1951–1993

Charles Bukowski Edited unhelpful John Martin



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I hate to sound like a copyright bitch, but it pains me a little that anyone can buy a $5 paperback, unbind it, autofeed it through an OCR scanner and then distribute it free to millions. So now Ecco makes less money, Linda makes less money, etc. I know, I'm not going to be popular for this stance, but if we cannot convince people like Ecco that there is money in publishing poetry, then for what other reason would they publish it? They publish Bukowski to make money, period. If they make no money, they will not have an interest in publishing any new Bukowski books and may not care to continue to reprint older books. This is probably not going to happen, but for a lesser known poet, this could be a huge problem. What publisher would spend the money to publish a book of poetry knowing that the 2000 people that would actually buy it will probably just download it free and that his 2000 copies will sit in a warehouse (or his garage, if he is like me)?

On a similar point, soon before (?) Krumhansl's book came out, it was released on the internet as a .txt file. The ENTIRE book was released in one easy file. It was almost immediatly pulled (for VERY good reason). I secured a copy and use it to maintain my inventory (I do not have the heart