Hi, all: This article is shocking, to say the least! Make no mistake; this is about loss of royalty payments and loss of income taxes on those royalty payments.

As both a published author and a college student, I would gladly forego my royalty on those copies of college textbooks that were shared among less fortunate college students, because it means that more college students will have them to read! As far as I am concerned, I would rather give that share of my royalty to a deserving college student than to a government bloated with the fat of too much taxation and not enough generosity towards the little guy.

College students are, or will eventually become, taxpaying, (hopefully) book-buying citizens who will pay back that small loss of royalty and taxes many times over.

Cheers,
Princess