Piracy? What Piracy?

July 17, 2006 John Obeto

John Battelle, in his Searchblog, has this article about an acquaintance who finds that Battelle’s book, The Search is on the street-vendor’s bestseller list in….Mumbai (Bombay)!

Can you imagine?

I like Battelle’s view of this, “……how cool is it that The Search is a street bestseller in Mumbai?! Do I care about the piracy? No. No, no no. I care that someone in Mumbai cared enough to rip it off, and that someone there might be reading my stuff. That is just cool. Commercial markets always follow the free, or, well, the pirates in this case. Always.”