I read &quot;Internet Book Piracy&quot; recently about this issue and the author, Gini Graham, has valid points and suggestions for reducing piracy; this was one of her suggestions.
I have no problem with Elsevier crying wolf when there&#x27;s none. They had it coming. I&#x27;m concerned about the actual cost to authors.
We need a new model that puts the authors and their readers as first priorities and facilitates the movement of information, not hoarding it. Publishing companies did that for a while, then they declared themselves custodians of our common knowledge and hoarded it from us.
I&#x27;m thinking of ways publishing can be made what it should be. Gini Graham has good suggestions that I&#x27;d like to see tried out.