Late Benazir Bhutto’s new book, “Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West”, is the current best seller in the country, Pirated copies of this book, selling like hot cakes, people are more interested in pirated copy than the original one, because of its low price.
Original and Pirated copies both are launched by the same publishing house [Harper Collins publishing House], original copy of the 328 page book is of rupees 1300, but the pirated copy of same 328 page book [launched last week] is of rupees 395 only.
Many students including me wanted to buy this book, but its price was not an affordable one for me and for many other students like me, who are already spending their 50 % pocket money on course books of our professional college and university, which too are very expensive.
To readers like me, it doesn’t matter that we read the book’s original print or pirated version, we wanted the content present inside book, not the quality of papers or its hard original binding.
According to the copyright law, publishing pirated versions without the permission of Author and publisher is crime, we agree to it, and we don’t want anybody to do this. What we want is that the author and publisher should themselves release the pirated version soon after the original print has done some business in the market, as students like me should also become able to buy and read the books.
Dated: 27th Feb 2008
By: Mubashir Shaikh
+923322653055
mubashirshaikh326@hotmail.com
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