The
large, established publishing houses already viewed the
e-book format with enough suspicion and weren't in the
mood to experiment with copyright language that made it
easier for readers to avoid payment. As an agent who
specialized in technology books, however, Henning was
intrigued by the novel nature of my predicament. I told
him about the two interviews I'd already gathered and
the promise not to publish the book in a way that made
Stallman "look like a hypocrite." Agreeing that I was
in an ethical bind, Henning suggested we make that our
negotiating point.
Barring that, Henning said, we could always take the
carrot-and-stick approach. The carrot would be the
publicity that came with publishing an e-book that
honored the hacker community's internal ethics. The
stick would be the risks associated with publishing an
e-book that didn't. Nine months before Dmitri Skylarov
became an Internet cause celebre, we knew it was only a
matter of time before an enterprising programmer
revealed how to hack e-books.
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