If, on the other hand, they buy a paperback copy, I might be able to take my wife to lunch sometime in the future. If they ignore me, and their computer gets infected, I'll laugh in Schadenfreude, and say I told you so. That is why I am making an effort to warn potential readers of this risk, despite the fact that they are stealing my royalty when they download an unauthorized eCopy. I would not want anyone who reads a pirated eCopy of "The Tolkienaeum" and falls afoul of a virus or other malware to think for even a moment that I had anything to do with it. In 2014, however, readers of "pirated" eBooks have to "beware of pirated PDF copies," because it is a fact of twenty-first-century life that unauthorized PDF downloads have been known to be used as a vector for viruses, and other malware. Those who held on to their copies of the ACE edition can now sell them at a nice profit on eBay for anything from $115 to $390.
There was, in fact, no downside for the purchasers, only for the author who was done out of his royalty. People who bought the pirated ACE edition got an inexpensive copy of "The Lord of the Rings" that would not contaminate the other books on their shelves when they put it away after reading it. There is, however, another aspect to the issue of pirated books that did not exist anno 1965, when the publisher whom Tolkien called "USA Pirates" printed a paperback copy of "The Lord of the Rings". If your book about Tolkien gets pirated, it just goes to prove that while history may not repeat itself, it does rhyme a lot. Someone thought it was worth enough to go to the trouble of stealing it. In a way, having your book pirated makes you feel like you've arrived. Those who approve of courtesy (at least) to living authors will purchase it and not download the PDF. To paraphrase Tolkien: Only the Llyfrawr paperback edition of "The Tolkienaeum" is published with my consent and cooperation. Those who approve of courtesy (at least) to living authors will purchase it and no other." Tolkien’s publishers quickly countered with an authorized American edition, each copy of which bore a message from Tolkien that said: "This paperback edition and no other has been published with my consent and cooperation. Tolkien in 1965, when ACE Books brought out an unauthorized paperback edition of "The Lord of the Rings". This is a pirated copy, and is not authorized by me, or by Llyfrawr. WebPages that purport to be either "eBookTreasures" or "eBook Universe" are offering a free PDF download of "The Tolkienaeum".
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